John Waters’s new book, “Carsick,” looks like a fun read. From a review in early June,

Mr. Waters’s new book, “Carsick,” arrives with a capital-P premise, one that could double as an elevator pitch for an A&E reality show. Now in his mid-60s, he proposes to touch up his pencil-thin mustache and hitchhike from Baltimore to San Francisco while holding cardboard signs that say, among other things, “Midlife Crisis,” “Writing Hitchhiking Book” and “I’m Not Psycho.”

The Times interviewed Waters about this book earlier this week.

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