James Geary joins MK Mendoza on KSFR's Wake Up Call to talk about his new book, "Wit's End: What It Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It". If you're looking for that perfect book for your book club, conversation material for your next cocktail party, or inspiration for your next creative endeavor, or just interested in relishing the finer more creative things in life, this is the book for you! It's a book written for the Santa Fe City Different community whose hometown genius will appreciate its genius perspective. It's an in-depth look at the full scope of wit. Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there’s the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers.
In Wit’s End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for each chapter; he writes the section on verbal repartee as a dramatic dialogue, the neuroscience of wit as a scientific paper, the spirituality of wit as a sermon, and other chapters in jive, rap, and the heroic couplets of Alexander Pope. Wit’s End agilely balances psychology, folktales, visual art, and literary history with lighthearted humor and acute insight, drawing upon traditions of wit from around the world.
Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End demonstrates that wit and wisdom are really the same thing.
To find out more about the book, see link below:
https://www.amazon.com/Wits-End-What-Works-Need/dp/0393254941