Lit Hub Daily: April 6, 2023

• “I think that women must write about their own experiences, just as they live them, subjectively.” Read a conversation between Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux, available in English for the first time. | Lit Hub In Conversation

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• Jack Zipes recommends five overlooked fairy tales. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• What Nicole Chung is reading now and next, from Nikki Giovanni to Rebecca Makkai. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand

• Jeannie Marshall reflects on finding the sublime (alongside the irritating) during a year of visits to the Sistine Chapel. | Lit Hub Art

• The new Tiny Beautiful Things miniseries adaptation, writes Julie Hass, is the life-affirming show we need right now. | Lit Hub Film & TV

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• Courting India: A reading list on Indian colonial history. | Lit Hub History

• “A powerful brew of a novel, emitting unpleasant sights, smells, and emotions rarely captured in print.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• A look at The Stinging Fly, the Irish literary magazine where Sally Rooney, Colin Barrett, and Kevin Barry got their starts, and the brilliant editor who nurtured them. | The New York Times

• John Self on Beyond Black, a meditation on the power of memory and Hilary Mantel’s funniest work of fiction, as revealing as a memoir. | The Booker Prizes

• “The only thing I can do is to keep pressing forward in my work, knowing that we can’t run from history and that the truth will win out in the end.” Isabel Wilkerson on how it felt to see Caste banned by public libraries. | Oprah Daily

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• Where to start if you’re ready to delve into George Eliot’s oeuvre. | The Guardian

• Seven books about wellness scams. | Electric Lit

Also on Lit Hub: Power and resistance in the Catholic church • Melissa Coss Aquino on being an older debut novelist • Read from Alejandro Varela’s new collection, The People Who Report More Stress