Binding: Paperback
Description: The newest essay collection from the New York Times bestselling author John Waters reflecting on how to overcome newfound respectability and rebel in the autumn of your years. No one knows more about everything especially everything rude clever and offensively compelling than John Waters. The man in the pencil - thin mustache auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos Polyester Hairspray Cry - Baby and A Dirty Shame is one of the world's great sophisticates and in Mr. Know - It - All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes how to cheat death itself. Through it all Waters swears by one undeniable truth: Whatever you might have heard there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all. Studded with cameos from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp Kathleen Turner Patricia Hearst and Tracey Ullman and illustrated with unseen photos from the author's personal collection Mr. Know - It - All is Waters most hypnotically readable upsetting revelatory book another instant Waters classic. Praise for John Waters Waters doesn t kowtow to the received wisdom he flips it the bird Waters has the ability to show humanity at its most ridiculous and make that funny rather than repellent. Jonathan Yardley The Washington Post Carsick becomes a portrait not just of America's desolate freeway nodes though they re brilliantly evoked but of American fame itself. Lawrence Osborne The New York Times Book Review
Title: Mr. Know - It - All The Tarnished Wisdom Of A Filth Elder
Author(s): Waters John
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250619464
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/21/2020
Category: Memoirs