{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/b5fe8d16-7518-4208-861b-e1ec5ce88192/69973c17f8a4f13cfff67734?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Little Atoms 987 - James Geary's The World In A Phrase","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60ed7797f1734ba0e93d0e59/1771518819811-bd816e3e-7eae-41e0-addb-f39e157c18fe.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>James Geary, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of <em>Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It, </em>Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists<em> </em>and <em>I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World. </em>On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about the reissue of<em> </em>his New York Times best-selling book&nbsp;<em>The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism</em>.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Neil Denny"}