{"product_id":"mr-know-it-all-john-waters-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Waters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250619467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250619464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10d","brand":"John Waters","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049650385151,"sku":"9781250619464","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eb61761c-4dbb-42ee-a480-21771ca9430d.jpg?v=1685002726","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mr-know-it-all-john-waters-9781250619464","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}