Tim Kreider is a cartoonist and essayist. If you’re not familiar with Tim’s work, sign up for his Substack (“The Loaf”), and read his two books of essays, “We Learn Nothing” & “I Wrote this Book Because I Love You.” Tim’s writing is a deadly combination of elegant & original prose, wicked humor, and bare-it-all honesty. He’s my favorite writer. We discuss…
With Cormac McCarthy gone, who’s the best living writer of the English language?
How a young Tim enjoyed the works of YA / sci-fi writer John Christopher (real name: Christopher Samuel Youd). Books mentioned: The World in Winter and The Death of Grass and the Tripod Trilogy, plus…
Moby Dick is strange. The best standalone chapter: “The Line.”
It’s possible neither Tim nor I know what “postmodernism” is.
Is “DEI” the new way of using the “N word?”
One of Tim’s first big breaks—commentary on Eyes Wide Shut in Film Quarterly.
James Salter, a writer’s writer.
Revisiting a few of Tim’s essays and characters — Tim’s peak-oil obsessed friend and the state of Tim’s busyness.
Is writing a “nice thing to do?”
On how Tim is stylishly homeless.
Tech utopians: “people who don’t like being people.”
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Three Californias Trilogy.
Tim’s recommendations:
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