Press

Interviews, Profiles and Conversations

• Author/Editor: Taymour Soomro on Other Names for Love with Mitzi Angel – Center for Fiction
• New Fiction, Pakistan’s Bold New Voices – Lahore Literary Festival 
• Whose Truth is it Anyway: Lies, Damned Lies and Autofiction – BBC Radio 4
• A conversation between Taymour Soomro, Deepa Anappara, Whitney Terrell and VV Ganeshananthan – Fiction/Non/Fiction 
• Letters to a Writer of Color with Deepa Anappara, Taymour Soomro, Amitava Kumar, and Madeleine Thien – Center for Fiction
• Why one story is never enough, with Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro – Intelligence Squared
• Friday LIVE: Nebraska Rep, Byron Jensen, Tosca Lee, Taymour Soomro and more! – Nebraska Public Radio
• The Writing Life with Deepa Anappara, Andrea Bartz, Taymour Soomro – PRH Author University
• Taymour Soomro: ‘I want to challenge reductionist narratives about Pakistan’ – The Observer 
• The Bonds That Sustain – Wisconsin Our Lives
• Who Do Powerful Men Become When They Sit Down at Home? – Electric Literature
• Taymour Soomro on the Sights, Sounds, and Social Dynamics of Karachi – The New Yorker
• Vintage signs Letters to a Writer of Colour edited by Anappara and Soomro – August 6, 2021 – The Bookseller

Reviews

• In This Debut Novel, Family Ties Bind, Even From Afar – The New York Times
• Literary Fiction – Daily Mail
• Back on the farm – The Times Literary Supplement
• A father-son relationship animates Taymour Soomro’s debut novel – The Economist
• A passage from Pakistan: Taymour Soomro unearths “Other Names for Love” – Bay Area Reporter 
• ‘Letters to a Writer of Color,’ about the craft of writing, comes to mean so much more – Boston Globe 
• Letters to a Writer of Color – Publishers Weekly
• Letters to a Writer of Color – Kirkus Reviews
• Newly Published, From Uncreative Architecture to Floating Boys – The New York Times
• Letters to a Writer of Color – Poets & Writers
• 5 Books We’re Reading This Month – Essence
• Letters to a Writer of Color – Booklist

Lists and Recommendations

• “34 New Summer Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down” Buzz Feed, 24 May 2022
• “Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, David Nicholls and more pick their favourites”, The Guardian, 25 June 2022
• “What to Read When You’ve Made it Halfway Through 2022”, 30 June 2022
• Get Ready, Because These Are All The Best Books Releasing In July – Buzz Feed, 7 July 2022
• “Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2022 Book Preview”, The Millions, 14 July 2022 
• “The best new books of July 2022”, by Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly, 23 July 2022
• What to read, according to the authors of Letters to a Writer of Colour – Penguin Online