A Tribute to Cookie Mueller



Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien take this opportunity to introduce The Cookie Mueller Corner to their program, a recurring segment in which they will read some of the late writer's wonderful stories (Mueller died from AIDS in November, 1989.) This show includes Mueller's hilarious A Winter in Provincetown, 1970, which appears in the 1985 anthology Wild History, edited by the artist and book collector Richard Prince. Once they're on a roll, the boys go on to present Max's Gathering Bruises, novelist Denis Johnson's Talking Richard Wilson Blues, Glenn's To All the Boys I've Ever Loved and more poetry by under-recognized British poet John Benjamin. They do not read any poems by Robert Benchley - a real rarity, as is this show in general (30 minutes).
 

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The late arts writer Glenn O'Brien and poet Max Blagg hosted the Bald Ego Online series from 2005-2006, featuring Duncan Hannah, Ron Padgett, Anna Akhmatova, Donald Barthelme, an Anthology of New York Poets, and more. 
 
After O'Brien passed away in 2017, Clocktower re-introduced the series in remembrance of the writer's life in the New York art scene. He will be sorely missed.   

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