Kay Sohini
@kaysohini.bsky.social
Writer, Artist. THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY out now Penguin Random House, 2025
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753097/this-beautiful-ridiculous-city-by-kay-sohini/
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753097/this-beautiful-ridiculous-city-by-kay-sohini/
I am not on here much lately but just wanted to pop in to say I am working on three new books!
Also, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City was featured in NPR's mid-year list! Thanks to everyone who has read and loved this little book. It's wild to see a piece of your heart out in the world.
Also, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City was featured in NPR's mid-year list! Thanks to everyone who has read and loved this little book. It's wild to see a piece of your heart out in the world.
August 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I am not on here much lately but just wanted to pop in to say I am working on three new books!
Also, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City was featured in NPR's mid-year list! Thanks to everyone who has read and loved this little book. It's wild to see a piece of your heart out in the world.
Also, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City was featured in NPR's mid-year list! Thanks to everyone who has read and loved this little book. It's wild to see a piece of your heart out in the world.
My review of four new graphic novels in the today’s Washington Post, edited by Jacob Brogan. Gift link:
wapo.st/3TZauRy
wapo.st/3TZauRy
July 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My review of four new graphic novels in the today’s Washington Post, edited by Jacob Brogan. Gift link:
wapo.st/3TZauRy
wapo.st/3TZauRy
Found out that THIS BEAUTIFUL RIDICULOUS CITY is one of the most sold books to public libraries! 😮
May 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Found out that THIS BEAUTIFUL RIDICULOUS CITY is one of the most sold books to public libraries! 😮
Read the full story here: wapo.st/4k84ktF
May 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Read the full story here: wapo.st/4k84ktF
“Visually, “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City” is a tour de force…The effect is a work of careful artisanship rivaling some of Sohini’s self-professed mentors and guides in comics storytelling: Alison Bechdel and Kristen Radtke and Thi Bui.”
—Tahneer Oksman,
The Washington Post.
—Tahneer Oksman,
The Washington Post.
February 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“Visually, “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City” is a tour de force…The effect is a work of careful artisanship rivaling some of Sohini’s self-professed mentors and guides in comics storytelling: Alison Bechdel and Kristen Radtke and Thi Bui.”
—Tahneer Oksman,
The Washington Post.
—Tahneer Oksman,
The Washington Post.
My book has now been reviewed by NPR Fresh Air!
The attention TBRC has been getting is beyond what I could have ever hoped for. So grateful to everyone who led me here. And my parents, for surrounding me with books growing up, despite everything gnarly life threw at them. www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
The attention TBRC has been getting is beyond what I could have ever hoped for. So grateful to everyone who led me here. And my parents, for surrounding me with books growing up, despite everything gnarly life threw at them. www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
February 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My book has now been reviewed by NPR Fresh Air!
The attention TBRC has been getting is beyond what I could have ever hoped for. So grateful to everyone who led me here. And my parents, for surrounding me with books growing up, despite everything gnarly life threw at them. www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
The attention TBRC has been getting is beyond what I could have ever hoped for. So grateful to everyone who led me here. And my parents, for surrounding me with books growing up, despite everything gnarly life threw at them. www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
Excited to share that the book launch for my debut book THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY which has received praise from The Washington Post, AP News, Financial Times, etc, will be held at the SNFL branch of the New York Public Library on February 27. The event is free and open to all.
February 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Excited to share that the book launch for my debut book THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY which has received praise from The Washington Post, AP News, Financial Times, etc, will be held at the SNFL branch of the New York Public Library on February 27. The event is free and open to all.
Hello from a day of too many meetings but impeccable sunshine!
February 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Hello from a day of too many meetings but impeccable sunshine!
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City in the Sunday Washington Post! 😊
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City in the Sunday Washington Post! 😊
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is in @washingtonpost.com today! I am still processing this incredible review of my very first book but you can read it here via a gift link:
wapo.st/3Ehmb1B
wapo.st/3Ehmb1B
January 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is in @washingtonpost.com today! I am still processing this incredible review of my very first book but you can read it here via a gift link:
wapo.st/3Ehmb1B
wapo.st/3Ehmb1B
Reviews of my debut book in the Financial Times, The Guardian, and now AP News??!
What is this week, even. I am anxious beyond words, but also so, so grateful for this moment.
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City will be out tomorrow.
What is this week, even. I am anxious beyond words, but also so, so grateful for this moment.
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City will be out tomorrow.
January 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reviews of my debut book in the Financial Times, The Guardian, and now AP News??!
What is this week, even. I am anxious beyond words, but also so, so grateful for this moment.
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City will be out tomorrow.
What is this week, even. I am anxious beyond words, but also so, so grateful for this moment.
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City will be out tomorrow.
Such an honor to be read and contextualized like this (and with the likes of Fran Lebowitz, no less!) in this current political moment. Thank you, @ericawgnr.bsky.social.
Link to the full article: www.ft.com/content/b76c...
Link to the full article: www.ft.com/content/b76c...
January 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Such an honor to be read and contextualized like this (and with the likes of Fran Lebowitz, no less!) in this current political moment. Thank you, @ericawgnr.bsky.social.
Link to the full article: www.ft.com/content/b76c...
Link to the full article: www.ft.com/content/b76c...
Woke up to author copies of my debut book from Penguin Random House. No idea how THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY will fare in the world, but this moment right here is more than what I could have hoped for.
January 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Woke up to author copies of my debut book from Penguin Random House. No idea how THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY will fare in the world, but this moment right here is more than what I could have hoped for.
Life is wild because my book has now appeared in the British Vogue, Comics Beat, Bookriot, The Story Exchange, Publishers Weekly, and the Library Journal?
Like what do you mean people other than those I have personally inflicted it on have read it and sometimes even loved it?? 😲
tiny.cc/TBRC
Like what do you mean people other than those I have personally inflicted it on have read it and sometimes even loved it?? 😲
tiny.cc/TBRC
January 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Life is wild because my book has now appeared in the British Vogue, Comics Beat, Bookriot, The Story Exchange, Publishers Weekly, and the Library Journal?
Like what do you mean people other than those I have personally inflicted it on have read it and sometimes even loved it?? 😲
tiny.cc/TBRC
Like what do you mean people other than those I have personally inflicted it on have read it and sometimes even loved it?? 😲
tiny.cc/TBRC
Fit check but make it an illustration :)
January 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Fit check but make it an illustration :)
At the American Historical Association conference from earlier today, talking a little bit about comics. So glad to have shared a platform with brilliant and staggeringly innovative scholars, educators, and historians who are building the field of Graphic History. w/@hsglobalhistory.bsky.social
January 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
At the American Historical Association conference from earlier today, talking a little bit about comics. So glad to have shared a platform with brilliant and staggeringly innovative scholars, educators, and historians who are building the field of Graphic History. w/@hsglobalhistory.bsky.social
I think I may have forgotten how to do text based social media. Here’s a couple of photos from my day instead—
December 28, 2024 at 12:49 AM
I think I may have forgotten how to do text based social media. Here’s a couple of photos from my day instead—
Eighth Christmas in New York. Still as happy as the first 🎄🫶
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Eighth Christmas in New York. Still as happy as the first 🎄🫶
Sadly pre-orders are about a year away, but here’s a little sneak peek. I will post more!
December 19, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Sadly pre-orders are about a year away, but here’s a little sneak peek. I will post more!
Sometimes I feel that I like too many things. Drawing, reading, writing, editing videos, photography, cooking, this city. Fortunately, sometimes in life it just so happens that you get to combine most of your loves into a single endeavor.
So many thanks to everybody who has made this possible.
So many thanks to everybody who has made this possible.
December 19, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Sometimes I feel that I like too many things. Drawing, reading, writing, editing videos, photography, cooking, this city. Fortunately, sometimes in life it just so happens that you get to combine most of your loves into a single endeavor.
So many thanks to everybody who has made this possible.
So many thanks to everybody who has made this possible.
Life is wild because tell me why did I wake up to a mention of my debut book in the British Vogue?!
December 11, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Life is wild because tell me why did I wake up to a mention of my debut book in the British Vogue?!
So excited to share that This Beautiful, Ridiculous City got juried into the Illustrators 67 exhibit at the Society of Illustrators! It will also be in their annual book.
To think that I randomly started drawing one day in 2018 and now my art will be displayed in a New York City museum come Spring!
To think that I randomly started drawing one day in 2018 and now my art will be displayed in a New York City museum come Spring!
December 11, 2024 at 2:59 AM
So excited to share that This Beautiful, Ridiculous City got juried into the Illustrators 67 exhibit at the Society of Illustrators! It will also be in their annual book.
To think that I randomly started drawing one day in 2018 and now my art will be displayed in a New York City museum come Spring!
To think that I randomly started drawing one day in 2018 and now my art will be displayed in a New York City museum come Spring!
Hello friends! Goodreads is hosting a giveaway of my book THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY. You can enter here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
December 6, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Hello friends! Goodreads is hosting a giveaway of my book THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY. You can enter here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Happy #nationalillustrationday! Here are some favorites from my portfolio 🫶
November 29, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Happy #nationalillustrationday! Here are some favorites from my portfolio 🫶