Leigh Cowart

(from Crown, in 2027!)

Elon!!!! hi Elon :)

[eyes roll back and start leaking strawberry milk pus like water from a fountain] DISGUST BOOK IS COMING

hiiii :) and thank you, your enthusiasm fuels the wet, squelching machine of my disgust-obsessed psyche 💘🤢💘

when you live in the country, every so often a neighbor down the way will use a bewildering power tool after dark and you just spend several porch sits listening to it and imagining what on god's fucking green earth they could possibly be doing with their flashlight and a dream

completely

gretchen I am pacing the room and doing lamaze breathing

having a complete fucking breakdown and throwing a table across the room because the fucking del Toro Frankenstein movie ends in a quote by LORD FUCKING BYRON AND NOT MARY!!!!! I am going to punch a hole in the wall. I am going to pick up a car with my bare hands and rip the doors off with my teeth

"wait why are all the candles falling over..…...OH GOD"

icarus lasagna 🥲

got clever and made my partner a big sexy lasagna instead of a birthday cake, did not consider that hot lasagna will absolutely just straight up fucking melt birthday candles

ugh

baseball sickos

a game for sick freaks

crawling sun bear looking shady

ben affleck sighing

shocked be this creature

how could you not be romantic about baseball

baseball moodboard

a cute looking blue jay perches on a branch

a skeletal looking blue jay after molding his head feathers

me nine innings ago / me now

yesssssss this is the path

this is so stressful a canadian anchor just did breathing exercises on air

christ alive

can't be alone with the baseball game

[box breathing badly] baseball, baby

Disgusting, Delicious Food This is a survey for my book about disgust, forthcoming from Crown in 2027. Thank you for helping me out, I am forever grateful!

I want to hear about the foods you enjoy that are gross to other people! pretty please take this tiny survey, thank you, I love you

forms.gle/fih5D5RGMT2u...

ahahaha hi emily 💞

I can’t wait to see what Leigh will do with this topic. Their earlier articles which touched upon the topic of disgust are giving me high hopes. I have no doubt that “Gross” will go down as one of the most interesting and most twisted science books of all.
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Leigh’s prior book “Hurts So Good” is a masterful exploration of pain on purpose. It’s one of the most fascinating and insightful things you’ll ever read (I was lucky enough to consult on the pain science in the book).
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I’ve been calling Leigh the best science writer in the world for many years. The reason for this is that they’re absolutely meticulous about the scientific details, and at the same time their writing is incredibly emotive. If Leigh wants you to feel something, you *will* feel it.
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Deal of the Day Author of HURTS SO GOOD Leigh Cowart's GROSS, a deep dive into the biology and psychology of the paradoxically seductive emotion of disgust-how it preserves personal and communal dynamics and protects our boundaries-and its intrinsic relationship with curiosity, desire, and belonging, pitched as Mary Roach with more chaos, to Aubrey Martinson at Crown, by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary (NA).

FRIENDS! FRIENDS! There was a book deal announced today, and it’s a big one.
The one and only @voraciousbrain.bsky.social will be writing a book on the science of disgust. Here’s why I’m extremely excited about this:
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jens this is so sweet!!

i keep winding up on horse smegma bean removal instagram