Reading Everything and Everyone with Anthony Veasna So

August 2, 2021

At Soft Punk Mag, a previously unreleased interview with the late Anthony Veasna So examines his path toward becoming a writer and how his reading list has always been all-encompassing. “People like to say that the best advice they can give to writers is to read a lot,” So says. “And that’s true, of course. But you shouldn’t just read literature. You should read life. Read movies, and art, and people. Read everything around you, very critically. Then build your method out of that process.”

is a writer and illustrator. She is the author of two illustrated books, Last Night's Reading (Penguin Books, 2015) and Sanpaku (Archaia 2018).