But a main part of the book is the sort of catharsis of it. So looking at this book now feels really interesting. There’s just so much pain and so much ignoring it. We’re in the dystopian present and death is everywhere and we are numb to it.

We were talking about the Death Book in January, and by March I thought, “Oh god, Bruce can’t do a book about death now, it’s just not the right thing and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah because people are dying and COVID is taking over the world.” And now I’m looking at the book and I was so wrong. I have another book coming out early next year, Fixations, which is more of a retrospective of my work in general. Can I help you with another book someday? OTTENBERG: I was gonna help you with this book but 2020 happened and shit went off the rails. MEL OTTENBERG: Hi, Bruce! I love your book. Below, LaBruce caught up with Mel Ottenberg, Interview‘s creative director and his old friend, to discuss gay zombies, prosthetic cocks, and death in 2020. The book builds on themes that have long concerned LaBruce: good, evil, sex, death, and the lines that blur them all. His latest tome, Death Book II, is a collection of rare photos from his storied career, most of which are decidedly not-so-SFW. Zombie, marrying independent film and gay porn. The Canadian artist and filmmaker has made a career of films with titles such as No Skin Off My Ass, Hustler White, and L.A.