{"product_id":"mr-know-it-all","title":"Mr. Know-It-All","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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, Mr. Know-It-All is Waters’ most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book―another instant Waters classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for John Waters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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, The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Cat Fables","offers":[{"title":"Used - Like New","offer_id":49991929004181,"sku":"9781250619464UL","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/2456\/3093\/files\/9781250619464.jpg?v=1790382383","url":"https:\/\/www.blackcatfables.com\/products\/mr-know-it-all","provider":"Black Cat Fables","version":"1.0","type":"link"}