{"product_id":"mr-know-it-all-the-tarnished-wisdom-of-a-filth-elder-9781250619464","title":"Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe newest essay collection from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author John Waters, reflecting on how to overcome newfound respectability and rebel in the autumn of your years.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo 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 \u003ci\u003ePink Flamingos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolyester\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHairspray\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCry-Baby\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Dirty Shame\u003c\/i\u003e, is one of the world's great sophisticates, and in \u003ci\u003eMr. Know-It-All\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStudded 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, \u003ci\u003eMr. Know-It-All\u003c\/i\u003e is Waters' most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book--another instant Waters classic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for John Waters \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCarsick\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a portrait not just of America's desolate freeway nodes--though they're brilliantly evoked--but of American fame itself.\" --Lawrence Osborne, \u003ci\u003e The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Waters'\u003c\/b\u003e books \u003ci\u003eRole Models\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and \u003ci\u003eCarsick\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) were national bestsellers, and his spoken-word shows \u003ci\u003eThis Filthy World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA John Waters Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e continue to be performed around the world. \u003ci\u003eIndecent Exposure\u003c\/i\u003e, a retrospective exhibition of Waters' acclaimed artwork, was recently shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. He is at work on a novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50642051465490,"sku":"9781250619464","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f87a5ebc-1071-462b-af0a-d875034a257a.jpg?v=1733054282","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mr-know-it-all-the-tarnished-wisdom-of-a-filth-elder-9781250619464","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}