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Anthony Veasna So, promising young Bay Area author, is remembered for his wit and talent Dorany Pineda © (Alex Torres) 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 Fr...

Print 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 tr...

Friends, editors, and readers offer remembrances of fiction writer Anthony Veasna So December 11, 2020 Anthony Veasna So. Photo: Chris Sackes Friends, editors, and readers mourn the unexpected loss of fiction writer Anthony Veasna So, who died this week at age twenty-eight. So had published stories in Afterparties, is forthcoming this summer. At The Nation, Billie Allen writes about his friend Brandon Bernard, the...

NEW YORK - The author of a highly anticipated debut story collection has died. Anthony Veasna So was 28. His death was announced Thursday by his publisher, Ecco, which did not immediately provide additional details.