
More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York
From Her Graphic Memoir “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City”
The following is from This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir by Kay Sohini.
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Excerpted from This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir by Kay Sohini. Copyright © 2025. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.

Kay Sohini
Kay Sohini is a South Asian researcher, writer, and graphic novelist based in New York. She holds a PhD in English from Stony Brook University and her essays and comics have been featured in The Washington Post, The Nib, and more. Her work focuses on utilizing comics in the scholarly examination of healthcare justice, environmental humanities, resisting disinformation, and creating an equitable future for all. This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is her first book.