We Learn Nothing

“We Learn Nothing articulated, for me, more human truths than any book in recent memory. When you’re done with it, it almost feels like finishing a textbook: you actually feel like you understand how things work a little better.”– “PublishersWeekly.com”
“Amazing … Any thinking person with a sense of humor will find We Learn Nothing provocative and delightful, reminiscent, in varying ways, of David Foster Wallace, James Thurber, David Sedaris, and Susan Sontag.”–Jennifer Finney Boylan “author of She’s Not There”
“In a political atmosphere as angry as this, [Kreider’s] oblique, self-deprecating commentary may be the only angle to which party loyalists on either side are likely to respond. We Learn Nothing should be their required reading.”– “Willamette Week (Portland, Ore.)”
“Tim Kreider may be the most subversive soul in America and his subversions–by turns public and intimate, political and cultural–are just what our weary, mixed-up nation needs. The essays in We Learn Nothing are for anybody who believes it’s high time for some answers, damn it.”–Richard Russo “Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls”
“Whether he is expressing himself in highly original cartoons that are hilarious visual poems, or in prose that exposes our self-delusions by the way he probes his own experience with candor, Tim Kreider is a writer-artist who brilliantly understands that every humorist at his best is a liberator. Because he is irreverent, makes us laugh, ruffles the feathers of the pretentious and the pompous, and keeps us honest, We Learn Nothing is a pleasure from its first page to the last.”–Charles Johnson “bestselling author of Middle Passage”

Tim Kreider has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Week, and The Men’s Journal. 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.

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