My article on metaphor theory and the history of the phrase “oldest profession” was the second “most downloaded” social science article for Palgrave in 2015. Now it’s FREE for everyone! I wrote about it here.
I’m going to credit the bump from the ‘students’ of Hot Dog University, a collaboration between Belt Magazine and Happy Dog. they sponsor a series of liberal arts talks. Giving a talk there on Nov 11th of 2014 was a blast – there were over 100 people,the Q&A went for 45 minutes and the questions were smart and sharp, and I got bought more beers than I could drink.