John Waters's Writing Studio

Mr. Waters lives in a 1927 Italianate-style house that he admired as a boy and later bought because, he said, “it looked like Dracula’s house.” His second-floor writer’s room is filled with pop-culture ephemera: a bottle of Tylenol from an infamous 1982 recalled batch; old props from his movies; an autographed tube of Justin Bieber-endorsed acne cream. “They’re like relics,” Mr. Waters said. “Like religious items that you keep.”

From “Full of Kitsch” by Steven Kurutz for New York Times; Photo by Justin T. Gellerson (@justintgellerson)

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