Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition: Collected Stories Sports_Gift_Guide NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Academy Award–winning director of Free Solo and National Geographic photographer presents the first collection of his iconic adventure photography

In "The Open Window" an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life

illustrated by Marla Frazee

”—Neil McRobert

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition: Collected Stories Sports_Gift_Guide NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished. Legendary as an underground actress, female adventurer, and East Village raconteur, Cookie Mueller's first calling was to the written word: "I started writing when I was six and have never