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The sight of blue hydrangeas brings out the worst in Henri Cole

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

This new book, from the NYRB’s publishing arm, is in a non-fiction genre I love: short entries dedicated to an integrating purpose; approaching a subject via concentrated, separated stabs rather than extended unfolding text. In philosophy this is called the aphoristic technique. In wider literature, it can range from the concise notebook to prose poetry.

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