<description>&lt;p&gt;James Geary, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of &lt;em&gt;Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It, &lt;/em&gt;Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;and &lt;em&gt;I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World. &lt;/em&gt;On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about the reissue of&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;his New York Times best-selling book&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

James Geary, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists and I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about the reissue of his New York Times best-selling book&nbsp;The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Little Atoms

Little Atoms 987 - James Geary's The World In A Phrase

Little Atoms 987 - James Geary's The World In A Phrase

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