*A People Top 10 Reserve of 2018*

THE BRAND NEW York Times essayist and writer 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 informed him he’s a philosopher. Religious groups have asked him to speak. He previously a cult pursuing as a cartoonist. But, most of all, Tim Kreider can be an essayist—one whose deft prose, uncanny observations, dark humor, and emotional about I Wrote This Publication Because I Love You: Essays vulnerability possess gained him deserved comparisons to David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, and the past due David Foster Wallace (who was simply himself a fan of Kreider’s humor).

“Wonderfully written, with sufficient humor to balance his spikiness” (Booklist), I Wrote This Book Because I Love You focuses Tim’s unique perception and wit in his relationships with women—romantic, platonic, as well as the murky in-between. He talks about his difficulty finding lasting love and seeks to understand his commitment problems by searching for the John Hopkins psychologist who examined him to get a groundbreaking study on attachment when he was a toddler. He talks about his valued feminine friendships, one of which arrived him on a circus train destined for Mexico. He discusses his time teaching young females at an upstate New York college, and the profound lessons they wound up teaching him. And in a hugely popular article that originally appeared in The New York Occasions, he talks about his nineteen-year-old cat, questioning if it’s the most enduring relationship he’ll ever have.

“In a method similar to Orwell, E.B. White colored and David Sedaris” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Reserve Review), each of these parts is usually “heartbreaking, brutal, and hilarious” (Judd Apatow), and collectively they cement Kreider’s place among the best essayists operating today.