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Books Are Magic presents Miguel Ángel Hernández, Spanish author of ‘The Pain of Others’ with a book signing Thu, April 23, 2026, 7pm in NYC
In this blend of police thriller and auto-fiction, a writer revisits a tragic crime from his adolescence and reckons with a dark, under explored side of Spain.
Thu, April 23, 2026, 7:00 pm
Books Are Magic, 122 Montague St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Blurring the boundaries between personal memory and literary construction, The Pain of Others stands as a searching inquiry into how stories are shaped, revisited, and, at times, unsettled by the passage of time. In this conversation, Miguel Ángel Hernández will reflect on the creative and ethical tensions that arise when literature approaches lived experience—not to resolve it, but to examine its fractures and ambiguities.
Rather than offering a straightforward narrative, Hernández’s work opens a space for considering the limits of representation: how memory is mediated, how perspective shifts over time, and how storytelling itself can both illuminate and obscure. His writing frequently engages with questions drawn from visual culture and critical theory, bringing a distinctive sensibility to the act of narration, considering absence, distortion, and the instability of truth.
In conversation with journalist and author Sarah Weinman, Hernández will explore the broader stakes of writing at the intersection of fiction and reality: from the responsibility toward real subjects and the porous line between investigation and invention, to the narrative strategies that allow literature to approach experiences that resist easy interpretation.
The event will conclude with an audience Q&A and book signing.
