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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 Francisco, according to his partner, Alex Torres. No cause of death was given. His highly anticipated ...

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 trauma of the genocide that their parents fled. “I was completely dazzled by it,” said Helen Atsma...

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 ninth inmate to be executed since the Justice Department ended a seventeen-year moratorium on capit...

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.