LitHub Daily: October 6, 2015

TODAY: In 1979, American poet Elizabeth Bishop dies. 

• Jeanette Winterson on writing a cover version of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. | Literary Hub
• The scramble for Gabriel Garcia Marquez after his literary agent, Carmen Balcells aka La Mamá Grande’s, death last month. | The New York Times
• Hanging out with Orwell’s ghost at Barnhill. | Kill Your Darlings
• Jenny Diski articulates the question on all our minds: “WHAT THE FUCK DID I HAVE TO HAVE ALL THAT SHIT FOR?” | London Review of Books
• Carmiel Banasky on suction cups, word salad, and Frida Kahlo. | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
• “No clip-on earrings, though: tonight, she hoped, there would be more enjoyable pains on offer.” New fiction from Juliet Jacques. | Catapult
• One of the world’s oldest written narratives–The Epic of Gilgamesh–gets a 20-line update. | Open Culture
• “I’m more interested in dystopia that exists not just as context, but that problematizes the story itself.” An interview with Shya Scanlon. | The Believer Logger
• On two novels navigating a path between African literature’s confinement and dismissal | n+1

Also on Literary Hub: Five books making news this week: punks, geniuses, and Parisians · Virginia Woolf, the life coach you didn’t know you needed (a fall reading list) · Charles Johnson on the genius of Jefferey Allen Renard · Jeanette Winterson’s Shakespearian rewrite, The Gap of Time

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