We’re very excited to announce that for season 5 of You’re Booked we’re jetting off to the USA for an entire series featuring our favourite American writers. And we’re even more excited to start off in Baltimore at the home of the legendary author and auteur John Waters! John is the director of 18 films including the classics Pink Flamingos and Hairspray and the author of 10 books, the latest being Mr Know-It-All. We perused just a tiny section of his his vast 12,000 volume book collection and discussed shoplifting, porn parodies, and, scoop alert, John’s first novel, which is currently being written.

BOOKS

John Waters – Mr Know-It-All

Evelyn Waugh – The Loved One

Witold Gombrowicz – Diaries

Jacqueline Susan – Valley of the Dolls

Pauline Kael – I Lost It At The Movies

Siv Holm – I, a Woman

Nick Mays – Proper Care of Fancy Rats

Phil Shaw – Extreme Ironing

Anonymous – Break Dance Hunks

Dean Starkey – Mondo Sexo

Joseph Jenkins – Slate Roof Bible

Ugo Mulas – New York: The New Art Scene

Dian Hanson – Big Book of Pussy

Dian Hanson – Big Book of Breasts

Zandha Rhodes – 50 Fabulous Year of Fashion

Brigid Berlin – Polaroids

Tim Coghlan – Notre Damned

Jean-Claude Lebensztejn – Pissing Figures

Julia Hall – Slaves of Christo

Hubert Selby – Last Exit To Brooklyn

John Rechy – City of Night

William Burroughs – Naked Lunch

William Burroughs Jr – Speed

Sheila Weller – Carrie Fisher

Augusten Burroughs – Toil and Trouble

John Waters – Role…

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