This Is Your Mixtape

17. Euchre for the Leathery Crowd. [David Demchuk.]


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David Demchuk has been writing for

performance, print and digital media for nearly 40 years. He’s got a special
interest in queerness and monstrosity. His debut novel, The Bone
Mother, was shortlisted and nominated for a number
of awards, and was the first horror novel to ever be nominated for the
prestigious Giller Prize, in 2017. David grew up in Winnipeg, where he first
came out, and moved to Toronto in his early 20s.

David and Michael talk about monsters, gay Winnipeg in the 70s, AIDS, the

relentless task of mourning, and playing euchre with leather daddies while the
Hells Angels keep you safe.

David’s Five Songs
  • Superstar by The
  • Carpenters.
  • Don't Leave Me This Way by
  • Thelma Houston.
  • Song to the Siren by This
  • Mortal Coil.
  • Everything Must Change by
  • Nina Simone.
  • Howl by Florence and the
  • Machine.
    Show Notes.

    David’s personal website. His book’s

    site, and its
    publisher’s.

    David’s professional and

    personal Twitter accounts.

    Tim Buckley’s version of Song to the

    Siren.

    A piece about Toronto’s steps.

    Friend of the show Anthony Oliveira writes about the Bruce McArthur

    case.

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