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# John Waters on the Cover of Town & Country Is a Delight
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/john-waters-on-the-cover-of-town-country-is-a-delight-09-2021/
- Published: 2021-09-22T17:00:16.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-23T06:49:25.000Z
- Description: This feels RIGHT somehow.
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: Fug The Cover, Town & Country, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:18

This issue marks the magazine's 175th anniversary and *that* is a hell of a milestone for any brand, but especially a glossy magazine in this day and age! Long may you wave, *T&C* \-- there is nothing I'd rather read by a pool! Also, this cover is just plain old great, and properly aspirational, as *T&C* ought to be: I *do* wish I were eating breakfast on a bed tray in a fancy bed jacket, and I *am* interested in taking a master class with Tina Turner, or hanging out with Martha Stewart in the kitchen! All this needs is a chic rich-person murder of some bad old man who deserved it! (*Town and Country* and *Vanity Fair* are, of course, the best magazines to read about rich-people murders in depth.) It is also, of course, inspired by a super famous Slim Aarons photo -- I'm just sorry they skipped the monocle.

As you can imagine, [the interview is a truly enjoyable read](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a37460247/john-waters-cover-story-interview-2021/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). It is properly interesting and quite funny. I loved this detail:

> “Monday through Friday, I’m in that room right there,” he says, motioning behind himself to a small office, where he starts writing at 8 a.m. “Not 7:59 a.m., not 8:01 a.m.—at 8 a.m. And every day I think, Oh I can’t do it, and at 8:01 a.m. I’m doing it. We go until about 11, 11:30, then I run my business in the afternoons. I’ve always done that. Done that for 40 years.”  
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> Waters writes by hand, on the right kind of legal pads, with the right kind of paper clips, cutting and pasting, old-school-style. “I hate little paper clips. I have to have the exact clear Scotch tape. And the right scissors,” he says.

Treat yourself!

###### \[Photographed by: Douglass Friedman, Styled by: Matthew Marden, Text and interview by: Mike Albo\]