Robin Black, award-winning short story writer, reads from her first full-length collection, *If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This*. Robin Black’s stories and essays have appeared in many publications and have been recognized as notable by the Pushcart Prizes, *The Best American Essays, and The Best American Non-required Reading*. In this, her first short story collection, she plumbs the depths of love, loss, and hope. A father struggles to forge an independent identity as his blind daughter prepares for college. A mother comes to terms with her adult daughter’s infidelity, even as she keeps a disturbing secret of her own. An artist mourns the end of a romance while painting a dying man’s portrait. An accident on a trip to Italy and an unexpected connection with a stranger cause a woman to question her lifelong assumptions about herself.