Semi-completed: "Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes" by Anthony Veasna So (Ecco, 2023) *audio version*
Status: completed all the nonfiction essays; did not listen to the fiction stories since it's not of my interest at this time.
Thoughts: I should look up the reader for this. I've never heard Anthony read, so I imagine this is similar to what he sounds like, but of course, I am probably completely wrong. Anthony passed away in 2020, just as his first book, a story collection titled "Afterparties," was going to come out. He was a highly anticipated and "new" writer, as in he was just about to debut a book. He was a queer Cambodian American, which piqued my interest as someone also from the Southeast Asian community in the United States. And, he's from Stockton, California, a city I know of and have family and friends who live there or have come from there.
"Songs on Endless Repeat" is a mix collection of his writings, both fiction and nonfiction, that were either published in literary magazines or were completed but not polished before his death.
I think I'll pick up the physical printed copy of this book sometime in the future. I want to revisit these essays so for now I'll borrow it on the Libby app.