Here's a round up of some of the interviews, talks, and articles that have appeared on The World in a Phrase over the past few weeks...

On the ePODstemology podcast, host Mark Fabian and I discussed how I go about conducting research on aphorisms and my year in the British Library compiling Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists (3:37-6:00); Voltaire, the sacrament of confirmation, and doubt as a creative, fertile state of mind (25:37-27:50); the importance of a cross-cultural approach to aphorisms (30:50-35:44); the difference between aphorisms and haiku and abstract paintings (44:32-45:25); light verse as aphorisms (46:48-49:49); and Spinoza’s definition of love (56:00-57:38).

On The Literary Obsessive, host Eleanor Anstruther and I explored aphorisms as psychological circuit breakers and psychoactive substances.

On Bookbound on Dublin City FM, host Paul O’Doherty and I chatted about the 5 Laws of the Aphorism; Lao Tzu’s culinary and political advice; Muhammad’s counsel to camel owners; and Wittgenstein’s aphorisms about language. (15:44-28:16).

You can hear my talk at Politics and Prose in DC on the bookshop’s Politics and Prose Presents channel on Spotify.

And in The Atlantic, check out my essay Aphoristic intelligence beats artificial intelligence: It’s not just okay for some things in life to be hard—it’s essential.

Plus, here's a photograph of the bookmark I received from the great Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver

on the occasion of my Wit's End talk there in February 2020, which fell out of my copy of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves the other day...