John Waters Favorite Book:

Two Serious Ladies by Jean Bowles

Influences:

Tennessee Williams

William Burroughs

Beatnik writers

Other books mentioned during the interview:

My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard

One sentence book Ducks, Newburyport

Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog by James Grissom

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC by Shahan Mufti

The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History by Joel Warner

Seventy Times Seven: A True Story Of Murder And Mercy by Alex Mar

Slovenly Peter