The legendary Mr. John Waters joins us for a virtual event on Wednesday, August 5 to celebrate the paperback release of MR. KNOW IT ALL.

About this Event

Magic City Books is proud to welcome the legendary John Waters, American filmmaker, actor, writer, and visual artist for a virtual author event celebrating the paperback release of his recent essay collection, Mr. Know It All.

Tickets are $25 and include one (1) paperback copy of Mr. Know It All and one (1) link to the Zoom event on Wednesday, August 5 at 7:00 CDT.

Copies of Mr. Know It All will be available at Magic City Books starting on July 21. You also have the option of having your book shipped to you at no extra charge.

About Mr. Know It All

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, 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, 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.