
Mr. Know-It-All
The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
3 months free
Buy for $20.24
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
John Waters
-
By:
-
John Waters
"[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.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 John Waters (P)2019 Macmillan AudioListeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
"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
"[O]ne of those books that you definitely should listen to on audiobook." -BookPage
"[A] wry, sardonic, tell-all audiobook flavored with Waters' uniquely blunt, insightful, and tongue-in-cheek sense of wit. Mr. Know-It-All is acerbic, biting, and utterly hilarious." -Midwest Book Review
People who viewed this also viewed...


















Love this man!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
AMAZING
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Waters Forever
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Amazing!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
John Waters is a king amongst men
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Once it pulled me in I was glued to it all the way through! Very fun book to read, even better that the author narrates it himself.
Such an entertaining read!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Well done!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Love love love
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Love John Waters but this is not his strongest
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
for fans
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.