Image CreditThe last two-thirds of the book are a compendium of rants on topics that both fascinate and confound the author. If you consider Waters’s psyche to be healthy, as I indubitably do. Here it comes: John Waters does not believe in penetrative anal sex! In the final third of the book, Waters lets slip that it was sold to his publisher partly on the idea that, at 70, he would take LSD again and write about it. Here, if anywhere in this great, rambling literary shrine to the author’s idiosyncrasies, we learn the very essence of John Waters.

Source: New York Times May 16, 2019 09:00 UTC