Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

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A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: The Millions * LitHub

By theNew York Timesbestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race

The late Anthony Veasna Sos debut story collection, Afterparties, was a landmark publication, hailed as a bittersweet triumph for a fresh voice silenced too soon (Fresh Air). And he was equally known for his comic, soulful essays, published in n+1, The New Yorker, and The Millions.

Songs on Endless Repeat gathers those essays together, along with previously unpublished fiction. Written with razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye, the essays examine his youth in California, the lives of his refugee parents, his intimate friendships, loss, pop culture, and more. And in linked fiction following three Cambodian American cousins who stand to inherit their late aunts illegitimate loan-sharking business, So explores community, grief, and longing with inimitable humor and depth.

Following one of the most exciting contributions to Asian American literature in recent years (Vulture), Songs on Endless Repeat is an astonishing final expression by a writer of extraordinary achievement and immense promise (The New Yorker).

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"This posthumous collection of stories and essays affirms [So's] versatility, secures his legacy, and bittersweetly reminds us of what could have been." The Millions

Author Bio

Anthony Veasna So(1992-2020) was a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA in fiction at Syracuse University. His story collection,Afterparties, aNew York Timesbestseller, was long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and won both the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction and the NBCC John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. His writing has appeared in TheNew Yorker,The Paris Review, n+1, Granta, andZYZZYVA. A native of Stockton, California, he taught at Colgate University, Syracuse University, and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California.