James Geary

James Geary is author of the New York Times bestseller 'The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism', the expanded second edition of which is published by the University of Chicago Press. He is also the author of 'Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It' and 'I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World'. He likes to juggle.