LitHub Daily: October 25, 2016

TODAY: In 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer dies. 

• On the opening day of the World Series, three stories from the history of American baseball: on Babe Ruth‘s bat (the one that dispatched the Chicago Cubs), Jackie Robinson‘s jersey, and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League handbook. | Literary Hub
• Ha Jin on love, betrayal, and the long reach of the Chinese government. | Literary Hub
• Police violence and the American caste system: Colette Shade on Arundhati Roy and Black Lives Matter. | Literary Hub
• A reader’s journey through transition: Joseph Schreiber’s search for self in a lifetime of books. | Literary Hub
• Today in unlikely literary friendships: Christopher Marlowe is being credited as Shakespeare’s co-author on the three Henry VI plays. | The New York Times
• “The exterior of the house is deep blood red and usually I am alone in it.” Short fiction by Diane Williams. | Granta
• What is sex but just an ongoing conversation about power? An interview with Larissa Pham. | Electric Literature
• “For some reason, it’s still shocking to people when women want to tell their stories and when women are unashamed of telling their stories:” Mira Gonzalez on Alt-Lit, “Sad Girl Twitter,” and the internet as an art form. | The Creative Independent
• A reading list of 10 international women writers, from Shahrnush Parsipur to Clarice Lispector. | Signature Reads
• “The genre of crime allows you to say almost anything and explore emotions that—particularly as a woman—are not acceptable to explore.” A report from London’s first crime writing festival, organized by all-female writing collective Killer Women. | Broadly
• A heritage architecture and monument has to be alive: A preview of the soon-to-reopen al-Qarawiyyin Library, the world’s oldest continuously operating library. | Hyperallergic
• After a two-year hiatus, HTMLGIANT has started publishing again. | HTMLGIANT

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