LitHub Daily: January 28, 2016

TODAY: In 1877, novelist and writer-in-bed Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is born. 

• An interview with a 32-year-old Nora Ephron: “I don’t have writer’s block, really.” | Literary Hub
• Garth Greenwell talks about sex, passion, and the queer body. | Literary Hub
• We’ve all won the Powerball, in a way: 2666 has been adapted into a play that will approximate the experience of “binge-watching Bolaño,” according to its directors. | The New York Times
• “Her work activates the memory of language and its mutations across time.” On the miniature fiction of Diane Williams. | Vulture
• A writer in command of his powers molding an elastic truth: A discussion of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood in honor of its 50th anniversary. | Hazlitt
• From his congenital hernia to his political writings, the lesser-known T.S. Eliot. | New York Review of Books
• Et to & to and per se and: The history and poetics of the ampersand. | Harriet
• See the SOUL of NERUDA for only $5: Ariel Lewiton on seeking proximity to miracles in the homes of Pablo Neruda. | Catapult
• “I only say, and I sustain it at all times, that I am a writer.” An interview with Ana Clavel, author and constructor of visual satellites of her books. | Words Without Borders
• “Fractality of a literary text will in practice never be as perfect as in the world of mathematics,” brag the mathematicians who took it upon themselves to look for fractal structures in classic books. | The Guardian

Also on Literary Hub: In praise of the DIY book party · Matthew J. Hefti on translating the secret language of war · What is a bookshelf? The structural significance of the NYPL’s 80 miles of bookshelves

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