Cookie Mueller’s cult work, How to Get Rid of Pimples, 1984 was her first and only fiction publication. Compiled of strange and grotesque short stories of her friends being healed by her miraculous acne cure, her writing appears alongside photographs by her peers Peter Hujar, Nan Goldin and David Armstrong – offering a glimpse into her unique world. Published by Top Stories (the prose periodical specialising in experimental writing) Mueller sits with other female authors in the series such as Kathy Acker (Top Stories #9) and Constance De Jong (Top Stories #15). How to Get Rid of Pimples was published five years before her death in 1989.