A Look at Cambodian Life in California, by Anthony Veasna So

[ad_1] NEXT PARTIES stories by Anthony Veasna So Stockton, California, in the Golden State’s Central Valley, has the country’s largest population of Cambodian Americans, with tens of thousands of refugees arriving between 1975 and 1990 after escaping genocide at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. The Cambodian diaspora has settled in the San Joaquin Valley, …

Book Review: ‘Afterparties’ by Anthony Veasna So

[ad_1] Anthony Veasna So’s witty and sharply worded short stories are set in the Central Valley – “a valley of dust and pollen and California fog” where the options for Cambodian American immigrant fathers drawn from their life stories are: “They fixed the car, sold the donuts… They also received social assistance. These families bought …

Anthony Bourdain Documentary ‘Roadrunner’ Trying to Understand Him

[ad_1] At the time, Mr. Bourdain wrote to his friend and artist David Choe: “David, this is a crazy thing to ask, but I’m curious”, with his life-explanatory phrase “You are successful and I am successful” and I wonder: Are you happy? In the movie, the e-mail is read from Mr. Bourdain’s voice generated by …

‘Roadrunner: A Movie About Anthony Bourdain’ Review: Salt, Sugar and No

[ad_1] There’s hardly a dry eye in the frame at the end of Morgan Neville’s lively, jam-packed documentary “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain,” but this isn’t epic writing. burdain, who died almost exactly three years ago At 61, there were many things—chef, lecherous, addicted, world traveler—any of which could have been the lodestar of …