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A week after Anthony Veasna So, an emerging author on the cusp of success, died unexpectedly at age 28, a far-flung but tightknit literary community is in shock and mourning over what might have been.
So died Dec. 8 in San Francisco, according to his partner, Alex Torres. No cause of death was given.
His highly anticipated short story collection, “Afterparties,” to be published in August by Ecco Press, offers a series of portraits of Cambodian Americans grappling with the inherited trauma of the genocide that their parents fled.
“I was completely dazzled by it,” said Helen Atsma, Ecco’s vice president and editorial director and So’s editor, recalling the first time she read his manuscript one of the first she acquired for the publishing company. “The writing was so punchy and funny and smart and attuned to pop culture and life in California.
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The first delivery trucks rolled out of a Pfizer plant in southwest Michigan early Sunday morning. People lined the street to watch and cheer as the cavalcade of semi-trucks, led by an unmarked police SUV, slowly left the parking lot.
Roughly 3 million doses of the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were in those trucks five doses to a glass vial, 195 vials to a “pizza box” tray, and five trays to an insulated, specially designed cardboard vaccine shipment box topped off with dry ice. By late Sunday evening, some of those same shipment boxes had arrived in Los Angeles via FedEx cargo plane.
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12/15/2020 09:10 AM EST
THE BUZZ California took major steps on Monday away from two overlapping eras: a pandemic and a presidency.
First, Gov. Gavin Newsom looked on at a Los Angeles hospital
as an emergency room nurse became one of the first Californians to be vaccinated against the coronavirus
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The first known U.S. inoculation against
COVID-19 since the Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of a vaccine came just as the nation’s death toll surpassed 300,000 people.
Now, the most ambitious vaccine rollout in American history promises to end a crisis that has jammed hospitals, overwhelmed funeral homes and brought much of the nation to a standstill.
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