Monster Portraits Becomes SPD #1 Fiction Bestseller
Monster Portraits by Del & Sofia Samatar has had amazing sales since its release in February and was Small Press Distribution’s #1 Bestselling Fiction title for March and April!…
Monster Portraits reviewed at Tor and Weird Fiction Review
Over at Tor, Brit Mandelo writes: “Monster Portraits serves the function of philosophy, or poetry: the text makes offerings, sketches connections,…
Monster Portraits covered by Chicago Review of Books, Third Coast, and Grab the Lapels
Over at Chicago Review of Books, reviewer Rachel Leon calls Del and Sofia Samatar’s Monster Portraits a “masterpiece,” writing that “The marriage between artwork and prose in Monster Portraits results in a beautiful book and a moving,…
Poems While You Wait is profiled in the Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune’s Chris Borrelli profiled Chicago-based typewriter poetry collective Poems While You Wait (whose proceeds all go to Rose Metal Press),…
Monster Portraits covered by Whurk and Storyological
Storyological interviewed Monster Portraits author Sofia Samatar both for their print and podcast formats. You can read the interview here and/or give it a listen here.…
Monster Portraits Reviewed at NPR
Thanks to Genevieve Valentine for her insightful review of Monster Portraits at NPR Books!
Some highlights from the review:
“A prose poem with jolts of autobiography,…
Monster Portraits in the New York Times Book Review
Many thanks to Amal El-Mohtar for her rave review of Del and Sofia Samatar’s Monster Portraits in her “Otherworldly” column for the New York Times Book Review!…
Sofia Samatar’s Speculative Memoir Roundtable Discussion up at Electric Lit
At Electric Lit, Monster Portraits author Sofia Samatar gathers some of the leading lights in speculative and hybrid literature—Matthew Cheney, Carmen Maria Machado,…
Sofia Samatar in Conversation with Amina Cain at Lit Hub
Thanks to Lit Hub for publishing this lovely and fascinating discussion about writing, monsters, literary influences, and more between Amina Cain and Monster Portraits author Sofia Samatar.…
A Starred Review for Monster Portraits in Library Journal
In his starred review for Library Journal, William Grabowski writes of Monster Portraits by Del & Sofia Samatar that “The series of brief fictions and sketches combine not only to dazzle the imagination but question and bear witness to society’s destructive impulse to catalog and marginalize the Other—in humankind.…