Luke Dumas unpacks the fat shame and cannibal cravings driving his Ozempic-era body horror Nothing Tastes as Good. From stolen paperbacks to Mounjaro prescriptions, this interview confronts the hunger beneath the weight-loss drug phenomenon and the mask we hand to strangers.
Luke Dumas follows A History of Fear and The Paleontologist with Nothing Tastes as Good, a body horror novel that drops Emmett Truesdale into the Obexity weight-loss trial and watches the miracle curdle into cannibal cravings. My review digs into how Dumas turns fatphobia, diet culture, and the Ozempic moment into the year’s most quietly devastating horror.
