Interviews

Audio clips from some interviews about Geary’s Guide and The World in a Phrase/We Are What We Think

UK EditionMidweek
BBC Radio 4
March 12, 2008

UK EditionThe Verb
BBC Radio 3
March 7, 2008

US EditionWordmaster
Voice of America (U.S.)
Part 1 - Oct. 16, 2007

Part 2 - Oct. 23, 2007

US EditionAll Things Considered
National Public Radio
Oct. 2, 2007

UK EditionBetween the Lines
Oneword Radio
July 12, 2006

UK EditionWord of Mouth
BBC Radio 4
Dec. 2, 2005

US EditionMorning Edition
National Public Radio
Nov. 1, 2005

About Me

James Geary

If you’ve gotten this far into the site, then you’ll know I’m obsessed with aphorisms. And that’s really all you need to know — except that my encyclopedia of world aphoristsGeary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists — is published by Bloomsbury USA.

My history of the aphorism The World in a Phrase was on The New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.

I am also the author of the popular science title The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses (click here for the U.K. edition), which has also appeared in Spanish.

Oh, and I like to juggle.

So what’s with the fish: click to find out
©2008 James Geary

“Sometimes, two goldfish in a bowl are enough”