In this Politics and Prose event with Lily Meyer, Sigrid Nunez talks about how bringing together characters and ideas led to her first collection of short stories, It Will Come Back to You (Riverhead Books, 2026), and how she feels about the dominance of autofiction in the current zeitgeist of literature.
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