James Geary

James Geary, the deputy curator at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, is the author most recently of Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It.

https://bookshop.org/books/wit-s-end-what-wit-is-how-it-works-and-why-we-need-it/9780393357592

The Unmade Edges of Language: On the Poetry of Alvin Feinman

James Geary: "Alvin’s poems exist at the extreme reaches of speech, the far outskirts of thought."

January 25, 2021 By James Geary

Making Dad Jokes is, in Fact, a Neurological Condition

James Geary Suggests You Take It Easy on Your Old Man This Holiday Season

December 18, 2018 By James Geary

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