Mr. know-it-all : the tarnished wisdom of a filth elder / John Waters.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374214968
- ISBN: 0374214964
- Physical Description: x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-370). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Mr. know-it-all -- Bye bye, underground -- Accidentally commercial -- Going Hollywood -- Clawing my way higher -- Tepid applause -- Sliding back down -- Back in the gutter -- I got rhythm -- Act bad -- Gristle -- Delayed -- Overexposed -- Flashback -- One-track mind -- My brutalist dream house -- No vacation -- Betsy -- Run-on Andy -- My son, Bill -- Grim reaper. |
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Subject: | Waters, John, 1946- Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography. Aging > Anecdotes. Artists > United States > Biography. Older gay men > United States > Biography. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | B W3293 2019 (Text) | 33126022538379 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
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"The newest essay collection from the New York Times-bestselling John Waters, reflecting on how to overcome newfound responsibility and rebel in the autumn of your years"-- - McMillan Palgrave
No one knows more about everythingâespecially everything rude, clever, and offensively compellingâthan 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 worldâs 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: âWhatever you might have heard, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.â
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 Watersâ most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory bookâanother instant Waters classic.
âWaters doesnât 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.â âJonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
âCarsick becomes a portrait not just of Americaâs desolate freeway nodesâthough theyâre brilliantly evokedâbut of American fame itself.â âLawrence Osborne, The New York Times Book Review