{"product_id":"we-learn-nothing-essays-9781439198711","title":"We Learn Nothing: Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Kreider locates the right simile and the pith of situations as he carefully catalogues humanity's inventive and manifold ways of failing\" \u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWe Learn Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This edition also includes the sensationally popular essay \"The Busy Trap,\" as seen in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKreider, Tim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tim Kreider has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Week\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Men's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and Nerve.com. His popular comic strip, \u003ci\u003eThe Pain--When Will It End?\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eWe Learn Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Wrote This Book Because I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e. He divides his time between New York City and an undisclosed location on the Chesapeake Bay.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50704922083602,"sku":"9781439198711","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_71ead5d7-5c8d-4173-88c1-f894c7c89909.jpg?v=1734482661","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/we-learn-nothing-essays-9781439198711","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}