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    Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
    Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
    Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
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    Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

    Written by John Waters

    Narrated by John Waters

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    "[Just] like reading a description of a Waters film is nothing like seeing it on the screen, listening to him tell his own stories brings the context and inflection needed to truly appreciate his art. A singular experience." — Booklist

    This program is read by the author and includes a bonus conversation.

    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, the original 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 of Waters’s stars, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, Mr. Know-It-All is Waters’s most hypnotic, upsetting, revelatory audiobook yet —another instant Waters classic.

    Praise for John Waters:

    "Cheerfully lewd and sincerely disingenuous, cult filmmaker, comic, and lifelong raconteur John Waters narrates his latest memoir/tell-all with a good-natured wink and a well-earned dab of sentimentality." — AudioFile Magazine

    “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

    Editor's Note

    Grammy nominee…

    John Waters has a dirty mouth, and it’s absolutely filthy in his hilarious memoir. Living on the fringe of the mainstream has given Waters a unique perspective on American culture, one that only someone who failed so spectacularly and repeatedly could have. Waters narrates this audiobook version, which is nominated for the Best Spoken Word Grammy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMay 21, 2019
    ISBN9781250223937
    Author

    John Waters

    John Waters is the writter and director of twelve films.

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