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Ladies and gentlemen: it is the artist's birthday week, when, per now-venerable tradition, we turn the cartoon over to our old and trusted friend Jim. Here is Jim's contribution this year:
(For those of you new to my work, that is Jim's conventionalized respresentation of me: an A-frame of hair, Xs for eyes, squiggled mouth, and, for some reason, an arrow erection.)
I feel that this is one of Jim's finest, a work of subtle genius. To my mind, the punchline is: there was no answer all along. Which is how I ended up hanged with a bottle in my hand. The end. Although, cryptically, Jim tells me there is an answer to the Hangman game. But this could just be him fucking with our minds.
Pain News
The paperback edition of We Learn Nothing is scheduled for release April 9th.
If your local bookstore, library, college, or gun club is interested in hosting a reading, they can contact my publicist, Meg Cassidy:
meg.cassidy@simonandschuster.com
I'm afraid I'm not likely to make it off the East Coast for this one (unless they're paying for travel), but it can't hurt to ask.
Praise for We Learn Nothing
"Tim Kreider's writing is heartbreaking, brutal and hilarious--usually at the same time. He can do in a few pages what I need several hours of screen time and tens of millions to accomplish. And he does it better. Come to think of it, I'd rather not do a blurb. I am beginning to feel bad about myself."
-Judd Apatow
"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
author of Empire Falls and The Risk Pool"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
author of Middle Passage and Black Humor"We Learn Nothing articulated, for me, more human truths than any book in recent memory. When you're done with it, it feels almost like finishing a textbook; you actually feel like you understand how things work a little better."
– "The Most Underrated Book of 2012," Publishers Weekly
"Earnest, well-turned personal essays about screw-ups without an ounce of sanctimony—a tough trick."
– Kirkus Reviews
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