Chloe Griffin

Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller is a book by Chloe Griffin published in 2014. Published by Bbooks Verlag, Edgewise is an oral history of the actress and writer Cookie Mueller.
Background
Edgewise is an oral history of the actress and writer Cookie Mueller. Griffin spent roughly eight years researching and writing Edgewise. She spent half a decade interviewing nearly 90 people for the book. The book discusses Mueller's life in John Waters' Baltimore from 1966-1969, the "hippie commune" Provincetown, Massachusetts, from 1969-1976, and New York City from 1976-1988. The book contains images and photomontages of Cookie, which reviewer Emily Gould of said "give a beautiful visual sense of Cookie's life and times".
Griffin interviewed Sharon Niesp, who was Mueller's longtime partner and caretaker when she became ill because of AIDS-related causes.
Pati Hertling of praised Edgewise for being a "a sensitive and thrilling oral history that captures her life from her childhood in suburban Maryland, through the wild times with John Waters, Divine, Sue Lowe, Mink Stole, and others in Baltimore". Richard Hell, who was interviewed for the book, said when Griffin approached him, he was initially cynical of the project because Griffin had not known Mueller. But he found that Griffin's book " Cookie justice" and "gives us Cookie's life and world in epic 3-D detail by seamlessly weaving together the loving and astonished testimony of most of the people who knew her".
Matt Kessler wrote in The Rumpus that Edgewise is "a definitive archive of Cookie’s life" and "a stunning portrait of both Cookie and the worlds that she inhabited".
Chloé Griffin
Chloé Griffin is a Canadian She lives and works in Kreuzberg in Berlin. Born in California, she was raised in Canada.
Griffin's visual arts works have been showcased at New York's Gavin Brown's Enterprise.<ref name="Bradley2014-10-09"/> She starred in the 2009 film ', the 2013 film L'amour Sauvage, and a few small-cost French and Canadian horror movies.<ref name="Bradley2014-10-09"/> She also starred in the 2015 film Desire Will Set You Free, a movie about Berlin's queer art locale.<ref name="Cliff2014"/><ref name="Bradley2014-10-09"/>
Griffin grew interested in Cookie Mueller after seeing Mueller in Female Trouble in "my first year out of high school in Montreal" and reading Mueller's short stories book Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black. She found Mueller's "intensely free and wild way of living" to be "hugely inspirational".<ref name="Hays2014-09-29"/>
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