The 5-year-old nose picker in me delighted in Cutter Woods’s attention to all things gross in EARTHLY MATERIALS, while my adult sensibilities reveled in his eminently-readable research of the infinitesimal miracles and machinations of the human body. A must read for popaholics, blood donors, the pee drinking community, and anyone who’s ever been amazed or aghast at what just came out. 

Rachel Yoder, Author of NIGHTBITCH

With a flair for storytelling, Wood pulls unexpectedly profound insights from deeply strange anecdotes. The result is an utterly unique tour of the human body.

Publisher’s Weekly

Provocative and profound. Earthly Materials takes us on a tour to the furthest and strangest corners of ourselves, the dimensions we generally prefer not to think or speak about, and in doing so teaches us something resounding and revelatory about who – and what – we are.

Brian Christian, Author of THE ALIGNMENT PROBLEM and THE MOST HUMAN HUMAN