With a cover image shot by Nan Goldin, Ask Dr. Mueller gathers together short stories, art columns and advice columns by American actress and writer Cookie Mueller. At turns glamorous, gritty, and always bohemian, Mueller writes on the benefits of homeopathic medicine, how to cut cocaine with healthy substances, and New York’s buzzy downtown scene in the early 1980s – of which she was a central figure. “Cookie Mueller was a writer, a mother, an outlaw, an actress, a fashion designer, a go-go dancer, a witch-doctor, an art-hag and above all, a goddess,” writes filmmaker and frequent collaborator John Waters in the introduction. “Even the worst experiences in her life were neutralized by retelling them in print as tall tales.”