![]() He says the sensitivity reader never called him back. Imagine it! John Waters! Sending his first novel to a sensitivity reader! But whether that shows growth, or that Waters is selling out, or whether the whole thing is simply part of a carnival-barker-esque marketing routine, we'll never really know. LMPC via Getty Images Pink Flamingos movie poster. ![]() In fact, he said he sent Liarmouth to one. The Waters-ness of it all remains un-diluted, if you, for some reason, happened to be worried that culture war debates over impropriety have gotten to the self-proclaimed "filth elder." But while he does bristle at terms like "trigger warning" or "sensitivity reader," he's not completely closed to the idea. The very idea of a "sensitivity reader" makes Waters groan. It's all fairly chaste, until an incident happens and Marsha goes on the run, meeting up with characters like Poppy, her trampoline-addicted daughter Richard, Darryl's talking penis Adora, Marsha's pet-loving mother and a varied cast of relatively innocent bystanders who have their lives affected in terrible ways. Marsha and Darryl live in empty, foreclosed McMansions in Baltimore, unadorned with any art, so Marsha doesn't feel outshone. Her partner, Darryl, has an unusual salary: he can have sex with Marsha once a year, "and this is that day, but she aint' paying him" said Waters. She hates bodily functions of all sorts – from bathroom stuff to bedroom stuff. One character will do something outrageous and another will one-up them and again and again until people are jumping up and down on trampolines, trying to murder each other, having sex with strangers and barking like dogs.Īt the center of it all is Marsha Sprinkle, a woman who makes her living stealing suitcases from the airport. Reading Liarmouth, at times, feels like entering a delirium (which is to say, it feels similar to watching a John Waters movie). Why not try to write your first novel in your mid-70s? I want to keep trying new things. The same reason I hitchhiked across America when I was 66. "I just wanted to try something I hadn't done," Waters said. He's written books, too, but they were works of memoir or journalism. At first, he thought it would be a movie, but he's done movies before. ![]() The book is based on an idea that's been knocking around his head for a bit. It's there in all of his work, from his early short movies touching on the KKK and the JFK assassination, to the 50-year-old, landmark film Pink Flamingos, to his latest project – his first novel, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance. That said, wrongness is Waters' specialty.
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