We Learn Nothing
Essays and Cartoons
1st Edition
Published on 12. June 2012
240 pages
978-1-4391-9872-8 (ISBN)
Description
?Kreider locates the right simile and the pith of situations as he carefully catalogues humanity's inventive and manifold ways of failing? (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths of the human condition, asking big questions about human-sized problems: What if you survive a brush with death and it doesn't change you? Why do we fall in love with people we don't even like? How do you react when someone you've known for years unexpectedly changes genders?
With a perfect combination of humor and pathos, these essays, peppered with Kreider's signature cartoons, leave us with newfound wisdom and a unique prism through which to examine our own chaotic journeys through life. These are the conversations you have only with best friends or total strangers, late at night over drinks, near closing time.
This edition also includes the sensationally popular essay ?The Busy Trap,? as seen in the New York Times.
In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths of the human condition, asking big questions about human-sized problems: What if you survive a brush with death and it doesn't change you? Why do we fall in love with people we don't even like? How do you react when someone you've known for years unexpectedly changes genders?
With a perfect combination of humor and pathos, these essays, peppered with Kreider's signature cartoons, leave us with newfound wisdom and a unique prism through which to examine our own chaotic journeys through life. These are the conversations you have only with best friends or total strangers, late at night over drinks, near closing time.
This edition also includes the sensationally popular essay ?The Busy Trap,? as seen in the New York Times.
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Tim Kreider has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Week, The Men's Journal, and Nerve.com. His popular comic strip, The Pain-When Will It End?, ran in alternative weeklies for twelve years and has been collected in three books by Fantagraphics. He is the author of two collections of essays, We Learn Nothing and I Wrote This Book Because I Love You. He divides his time between New York City and an undisclosed location on the Chesapeake Bay.
Content
- Intro
- Praise
- Description
- About Tim Kreider
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Author's Note
- Reprieve
- The Creature Walks Among Us
- You Can't Stay Here
- The Czar's Daughter
- How They Tried to Fuck Me Over (But I Showed Them!)
- When They're Not Assholes
- The Anti-Kreider Club
- Escape From Pony Island
- The Referendum
- Bad People
- Chutes and Candyland
- An Insult to the Brain
- Sister World
- Averted Vision
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Footnotes
