We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons

Tim Kreider

Jun 2012 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

“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.

Ratings and reviews

This book is a waste of time and money. Giving up after painfully reading through 2/3. Deleting this pointless thing from my library. I bought it from a recommendation from Tim Ferriss who showcased a full paragraph of the book -which is not even in the book... What a mistake. This is a worthless compilation of pointless stories from some 40-something narcisist guy who seriously believes his boring life is great enough to put them in a book. Don't bother spending a single buck for it, I seriously think yoy should be paid for having to read such a thing.

Would love to be able to determine if this is worth a full read but the free sample is 2 pages long. That's not enough to properly evaluate.

Interesting essays about core subjects like friendship, family, past and future. The Cover shown here is not the one you will recieve. "The busy trap" is not there.

About the author

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.