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TODAY: In 2006, poet Stanley Kunitz dies.

Lessons in living in the Anthropocene (from the world’s most pessimistic climate writer). | Lit Hub Criticism

Dear Hollywood: please stop hot-washing your literary adaptations. | Lit Hub

On Anthony the Turk and Grietje, the larger-than-life, 17th-century Manhattan couple who would absolutely make for great reality TV . | Lit Hub History

Robert K. Brigham remembers searching for his dad , both abroad and right in front of him. | Lit Hub Memoir

Stine An’s TBR features work by Lee Jenny, Cynthia Cruz, Henry Goldkamp, and others. | Lit Hub Criticism

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction . | Lit Hub Bookstores

“It’s a character study of a woman becoming corrupted by the only kind of power she considers herself able to wield.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week .…