Huáscar Robles will be at Strand Bookstore to speak about his new book, Los penúltimos días (2026). Carmen Graciela Díaz will serve as moderator for this discussion. This event will take place on Friday, November 13, 2026, at 7:00pm, at The Strand, upper West-side (450 Columbus Avenue, New York, New York).
Xavier Valcárcel writes, “With these stories—which oscillate between postmodern irony, humor, and speculative fiction—Huáscar Robles once again masterfully draws us into the complex chiaroscuro of contemporary life and the violent imaginaries of what lies close at hand.”
Description: Join us for a release event with writer and journalist Huáscar Robles, discussing his new book LOS PENÚLTIMOS DÍAS.
In Los penúltimos días, Huáscar Robles weaves stories of port-disaster Puerto Rico into perreo combativo-fueled resistance (a reggaetón-inspired form of protest) in the inconceivable world of trauma porn where characters ride a techno-labyrinth of Cross-Fit sects, crypto investors and amusement parks.
Huáscar Robles is a writer and journalist from Caguas, Puerto Rico. He is a 2024 Letras Boricuas Fellow from the Mellon and Flamboyan Foundations. He is the author of the book of short stories Los penúltimos días (Pana libros, San Juan, PR, 2026) novel Demonios (Abismos Editorial, Mexico City, 2025) and Puerto príncipes: temblemos todos, (La Cifra, México City 2018), a nonfiction book on Haiti after the earthquake.
He is a former fellow of Columbia University’s Ochberg Fellowship and University of Southern California’s Institute for Justice and Journalism. He has published in The New York Times, NYU Temporales and Chicago Tribune, among others. He is currently working on a film adaptation of his first novel.
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Huáscar Robles will be at Strand Bookstore to speak about his new book, Los penúltimos días (2026). Carmen Graciela Díaz will serve as moderator for this discussion. This event will take place on Friday, November 13, 2026, at 7:00pm, at The Strand, upper West-side (450 Columbus Avenue, New York, New York). Xavier Valcárcel writes, “With
