“Tennessee Williams saved my life,” John Waters admitted in his introduction to Williams’ Memoirs. “I yearned for a bad influence,” he wrote, “and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny.” The same subversive qualities that run through the bluer, “bad” Tennessee Williams that so appealed to Waters are also at the core of his best-loved work.(Andrew Holter)