Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

By
John Waters
John Waters
1989 • 384 pages

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Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Baby, Don't Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live
William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls
Southern Lady Code: Essays
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

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Criticism

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Poetics
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More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
Literary Theory : An Introduction
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
Singular voices: American poetry today
The lifetime reading plan

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117 books

Autobiography

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Stephen McClurg
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
Night
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Roasting in Hell's Kitchen
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Beneath the Underdog

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59 books

Humor

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Anguished English
Story of the Eye
Catch-22
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Candide
Will Storr vs. The Supernatural

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36 books

Lgbtq

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A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels
The Dandy: Brummell to Beerbohm
Our Lady of the Flowers
The Naked Civil Servant
Just Kids
City of Night

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57 books

Hollywood

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The Distance
The Way We Wore: Styles Of The 1930s And '40s and Our World Since Then
The Star Machine
The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth
Garbo
The house of Barrymore

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47 books

Humor

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The Luck of the Bodkins
Thank You, Jeeves
Leave it to Psmith
Joy in the Morning
Psmith in the city
Uncle Fred in the Springtime

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Film Theory Etc

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