James Geary is the deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, editor of Nieman Reports, and former editor of the European edition of Time magazine. He is the author of Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It, I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists, the New York Times bestseller The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, and The Body Electric: An Anatomy of The New Bionic Senses.

James explains metaphors, aphorisms and puns more concisely and humorousy than ever before and explains why they are essential to good writing. And, if you paid attention to the introduction, ...spoiler alert...no, he never uses gnomology in a sentence during the podcast.

Book links:

Wits End

https://bookshop.org/p/books/wit-s-end-what-wit-is-how-it-works-and-why-we-need-it-james-geary/8775565?ean=9780393357592

I is an Other

https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-is-an-other-the-secret-life-of-metaphor-and-how-it-shapes-the-way-we-see-the-world-james-geary/8994938?ean=9780061710292

Geary's Guide to the Worlds Great Aphorists

https://www.amazon.com/Gearys-Guide-Worlds-Great-Aphorists/dp/1596912529/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1487903585&sr=8-3&keywords=james+geary

The World in a Phrase

https://www.amazon.com/World-Phrase-Brief-History-Aphorism/dp/1582344302/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1487903585&sr=8-2