I just want to tell you a good story and a story that I want you to come in my world

and I'll be your guide and you'll be safe and let's investigate people that we maybe

would never be able to understand and figure out what makes a Mac like that.

That's what all writers do.

The filmmaker and author and general cultural icon John Waters is here to talk about his

first novel, Liar Mouth, a feel bad romance.

Plus, the Times' critics Dwight Garner and Jennifer Salai join us to talk about books

they've recently reviewed.

This is the Book Review Podcast.

It's May 13th.

I'm John Williams.

John Waters is here.

He is perhaps a quintessential example of someone who needs no introduction but it's

too fun to introduce him so I'm not going to pass up the opportunity.

He's a groundbreaking taboo pulverizing filmmaker whose movies include the once controversial

and now canonical Pink Flamingos, female trouble, crybaby and hairspray which was adapted

into a smash hit Broadway musical.

He's also a prolific author of books which include Car Sick and which he recounts hitchhiking

across America in his mid 60s and role models.

A terrific book about Johnny Math is little Richard and many others who Waters admires.

His new book is his first novel, Liar Mouth, a feel bad romance and he's here to talk about

it.

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