Dražen Jergović is an electrical engineer by profession and an aphorist by vocation. He is the author of three books of humor/satire — Rideamus, The Key to (Un)Success and The Diary of a Niggler — and leads workshops on writing short humorous/satirical pieces for both children and adults. Based i...

Many thanks to everyone at the Cambridge Literary Festival for hosting me and The World in A Phrase on April 25. And thanks to everyone who came out to juggle words, ideas, and balls. There was a blank sheet selected from the globe, and the topic was “agriculture.” I offered philosopher and state...

Many thanks to everyone at the wonderful International Festival of Literature Dublin for inviting me to talk about aphorisms, and many thanks to everyone who came out on a cold, rainy Dublin Sunday afternoon for my conversation with John Connell, author of The Wisdom of Farmers: What We Can Learn...

Piotr Bardzik describes himself as Polish by birth, Maltese by love, European by conviction, and bean counter by profession. He neglects to mention one important biographical detail: aphorist by avocation. Bardzik has channeled what began as regular journal entries into two books of aphorisms, Fa...

“Nothing makes life more complicated than taking the easy way out,” Andrzej Majewski writes in Wisdom for Every Occasion. But in his collection of aphorisms, Majewski, organizer of last year’s International Aphorism Conference in Wroclaw, Poland, provides no easy answers, just plenty of complicat...