I Wrote This Book Because I Love You, Tim Kreider
I Wrote This Book Because I Love You, Tim Kreider
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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
Essays

Author: Tim Kreider

Narrator: Tim Kreider

Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/06/2018


Synopsis

*A People Top 10 Book of 2018*

The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.

Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s a philosopher. Religious groups have invited him to speak. He had a cult following as a cartoonist. But, above all else, Tim Kreider is an essayist—one whose deft prose, uncanny observations, dark humor, and emotional vulnerability have earned him deserved comparisons to David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, and the late David Foster Wallace (who was himself a fan of Kreider’s humor).

“Beautifully written, with just enough humor to balance his spikiness” (Booklist), I Wrote This Book Because I Love You focuses Tim’s unique perception and wit on his relationships with women—romantic, platonic, and the murky in-between. He talks about his difficulty finding lasting love and seeks to understand his commitment issues by tracking down the John Hopkins psychologist who tested him for a groundbreaking study on attachment when he was a toddler. He talks about his valued female friendships, one of which landed him on a circus train bound for Mexico. He talks about his time teaching young women at an upstate New York college, and the profound lessons they wound up teaching him. And in a hugely popular essay that originally appeared in The New York Times, he talks about his nineteen-year-old cat, wondering if it’s the most enduring relationship he’ll ever have.

“In a style reminiscent of Orwell, E.B. White and David Sedaris” (The New York Times Book Review), each of these pieces is “heartbreaking, brutal, and hilarious” (Judd Apatow), and collectively they cement Kreider’s place among the best essayists working today.

About Tim Kreider

Tim Kreider has written for The New York TimesThe New YorkerThe WeekThe 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by M. on January 05, 2018

[URL not allowed] Any serious self-examiner who may consider him or herself a discerning reader, will completely miss out on an uplifting and enjoyable reading experience if caught up in ignoring this book because of its title. Obviously, Mr. Kreider, on surface, could have com......more

Goodreads review by Ava on January 11, 2020

It seems cruel that I can gorge myself in two days on the work that took a sharp mind years to create. It is cruel to me because I became addicted to a substance, these essays, that is not infinite in supply. There’s twelve essays here, and when I finished the last one, I scoured the acknowledgement......more

Goodreads review by Valerity (Val) on January 29, 2018

This book is a group of essays by the author written on the subject of love in different circumstances with a humorous bent. It is my first experience with his writing and I'd never heard of him before. I became interested in reading it from the description and found it rather diverse and entertaini......more

Goodreads review by Conor on April 30, 2018

This was delightful. Slightly less funny but much more polished than We Learn Nothing. Tim Kreider is a smart, insightful, wry and kindly man. Read him and warm your soul.......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on January 25, 2018

Should I be concerned by how much I related to this book?......more