Poets & Writers Theater

In this Politics and Prose event, Yiyun Li talks about her latest novel, Music Against the Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026), and how art can sometimes be a way to shun life in a conversation with Rabih Alameddine. Li’s novel is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Politics and Prose event, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn reads from their second essay collection, I Have This Thing for Flowers: Essays on the Roots of Relationships (Flatiron Books, 2026), and discusses how researching and writing about flowers helped structure their personal experiences in a conversation with Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes. Sawchyn’s book is featured in Page One in the September/October 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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.

In this video, Lillian Li talks about her desire to write about friendships and friendship breakups, and the experience of growing up in a hypercompetitive Chinese American community in her second novel, Bad Asians (Henry Holt, 2026), for this Politics and Prose event with Angie Kim.