To make the Major Assignment number 2, I looked over multiple short stories to get an idea of what we might like to read and how short stories worked. Afterwards, I read and discussed the short stories. I got to pick what story and what collection I wanted the story to be from. At first, I chose Milk and Honey, but I talked about the entire collection on an assignment instead of just one story. So, I switched to afterparties by Anthony Veasna So’s collection and out of all of the stories I chose Superking Son Scores Again. After I chose this story, I typed out a short analysis about the story without giving too much away. After that I researched more about So and talked about his life and him as an overall author. Then I looked up what other people have said about the book and the collection as a whole and took their quotes so other people would want to read it. I made a book cover using google draw, taking the image from google about badminton and then putting the title on it. Then before everyone looked over my work including Mrs. Dudley and then changed my work accordingly with some help.
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Anthony Veasna So Biography
Anthony Vesna So went to Stanford University studying art and English Literature graduated then went to Syracuse University. He was there for three years for his fine arts in creative writing masters degree. He also taught at the University of Syracuse. He also taught for next generation scholars, also Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants.
Anthony Veasna So was born on Feb. 20, 1992, in Stockton, California. Helen Atsma, vice president and editorial director at Ecco and Mr. So’s editor, said in a phone interview: “His writing is blazingly funny but also deeply empathetic. Those traits don’t come together that often.” Anthony described himself as “grotesque parody of a model minority.”
So considered himself more Californian than American and that had an impact on his stories and his perspective on the society in his books.
So died on December 8th 2020 at just twenty eight years old working on another novel “Straight Through Cambotown,” which was about a pansexual rapper, a comedian philosopher and a hotheaded illustrator.``So was all three of those people,” Ms. Karr said. All of Sos’ stories were based on his life or writing to someone. His stories were dark while having funny things in them.
Superking Son Brief Analysis
Role Models. Most people have them, and we look up to them each and every day. Coaches and players build relationships, and it can be good for the player, or it could end up bad for the player. “Superking Son Scores again” was a thrilling story about boys looking up to their coach. The boys started idolizing their coach as he led them to two national championships and was overall a huge part in every single one of the boys' lives. The coach had a distinct smell to him as well that made the boys remember him, everytime they walked past things.
As for the boys, they have to deal with Son starting to become different and they have to be the ones to figure out if he is the mentor they need or is he someone they shouldn't look up to after all.
Superking Son Sources
“...over the course of the story they watch him shrink from legend to loser, becoming a deflated version of himself as he tries to grasp glory on the court one last time before the pressures of adulthood”
Amil Niazi
New York Times
From Anthony Veasna So, Glimpses of Cambodian Life in California - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
“collection Afterparties contains multitudes, embodying both the author's Cambodian American heritage and his life-affirming worldview.”
THÚY ĐINH
NPR
Review: 'Afterparties,' By Anthony Veasna So : NPR
“Superking Son Scores Again” appeared in the literary magazine n+1. Narrated in the first-person plural by “the young men of this Cambo hood,” it is about a grocery store owner who moonlights as a high school coach — “a regular Magic Johnson of badminton”
Ann Levin
AP News
“The story “Superking Son Scores Again” compresses a host of generational divides into a taut, funny story about a high school badminton team”
Mark Athitakis
USA Today
Anthony Veasna So's posthumous 'Afterparties' a bittersweet triumph (usatoday.com)
