Performances
Selected audio and video clips:
TedGlobal
July 22, 2009
Metaphorically Speaking
Oxford, U.K.
Sun Valley Writer's Conference
August 24, 2008
Sun Valley, Idaho
Proceedings of the First Meeting of the World Aphorism Organization
March 14, 2008
Goodenough College, London, under the sponsorship of the University of London’s Institute of Philosophy
Waterstone’s Bookshop, Gower Street, London
March 13, 2008
Excerpts from a juggling aphorist...
2007
The Foreign Policy Association
Oct. 10, 2007
The Lester S. Morse, Jr. Lecture: Aphorisms and Diplomacy
LIVE from the NYPL
Oct. 9, 2007
Juggling Aphorisms (edited)
2006
The Falmouth Festival of Literature & Arts
Oct. 7, 2006
How Benjamin Franklin begat Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce...
The Ilkley Literature Festival
Oct. 1, 2006
Hear about aphorists Stanislaw Jerzy Lec and Nicolas Chamfort
Ways With Words Festival, Dartington Hall
July 8, 2006
Listen to some of the tricky questions from the audience and my attempted answers
Swindon Festival of Literature
May 2, 2006
See the Five Laws of the Aphorism explained — while juggling!
2002
The Institute of Contemporary Arts
Feb. 26, 2002
A panel discussion focused on some of the themes addressed in my earlier book The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses.
About Me
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 aphorists — Geary’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.
