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Anthony Veasna So, promising young Bay Area author, is remembered for his wit and talent


Anthony Veasna So, promising young Bay Area author, is remembered for his wit and talent
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Anthony Veasna So, writer of the forthcoming story collection Afterparties, died last week in San Francisco. He was 28. (Alex Torres)
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. ....

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Emerging writer Anthony Veasna So died Dec. 8 at 28


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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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Anthony Veasna So, SF author on the brink of stardom, dies at 28


Anthony Veasna So, SF author on the brink of stardom, dies at 28
Penelope Green, New York Times
Dec. 13, 2020
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This image provided by Ecco shows Anthony Veasna So. The author of the highly anticipated debut story collection, Afterparties, to be published in August, has died. So was 28. His death was announced Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, by his publisher, Ecco. (Chris Sackes/Ecco via AP)Chris Sackes/Associated Press
Anthony Veasna So, the author of crackling, kinetic and darkly comedic stories that made vivid the lives of first-generation Khmer Americans, died Tuesday at his home in San Francisco. He was 28.
Alex Torres, So’s partner, confirmed the death but said he did not know the cause. He said it was sudden and unexpected. ....

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