Sigrid Nunez — It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories - with Lily Meyer — at Conn Ave

Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award–winning author of *The Friend*, will celebrate the publication of her first-ever short story collection, *It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories*, at Politics and Prose’s Connecticut Avenue location. Over the course of three decades, Nunez has built a reputation for warm, unadorned prose that balances gravity and levity, probing philosophical questions about death, grief, art, and love. This collection gathers thirteen of her best stories from across her career, tracing the origins of her style and remarkable artistic range. She will be joined in conversation by Lily Meyer, a translator, critic, novelist (*Short War*), and staff writer at *The Atlantic*, whose essays and criticism have appeared in *The New Yorker*, *Bookforum*, and *The New York Times Book Review*.

When: Thursday, July 16, 2026, at 7:00 PM.
Venue: Politics and Prose at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008.
Tickets: This event is free with first-come, first-served seating; no ticket purchase is required.
Livestream: A livestream option is available for those unable to attend in person.
Author: Sigrid Nunez is the author of nine novels, including *The Friend*, *What Are You Going Through*, and *The Vulnerables*, as well as *Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag*. She has received the National Book Award, Whiting Award, Berlin Prize Fellowship, Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, Rome Prize in Literature, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has been translated into thirty-five languages.
Conversation Partner: Lily Meyer is a novelist, translator, and critic; her novel *Short War* and her translations and stories appear in *The Dial*, *The Drift*, *The Sewanee Review*, *The Southern Review*, among others.
Accessibility: To request accommodations or inquire about accessibility, email events@politics-prose.com, ideally one week before the event date. The venue will make an effort to accommodate all requests received up to the time of the event.
Book: *It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories* is available for preorder at $29.00 (hardcover) and is published by Hachette Books. The book’s publication date is July 14, 2026. It has been named a Best Book of the Summer by the *Los Angeles Times*, *The Boston Globe*, *Harper’s Bazaar*, and more.
Note: The event is part of Politics and Prose’s regular programming and is categorized as Fiction & Poetry.