"After the dissolution of her marriage, a writer is transformed into a 'clam' via typo after her mother keeps texting her to 'clam down.' The funny if unhelpful command forces her to ask what it means to 'clam down' during crises: to retreat, hide, close up, and stay silent. Idiomatically, we are said to 'clam up' when we can't speak, and to 'come out of our shell' when we reemerge, transformed. In order to understand her path, the clam digs into examples of others who have also 'succumbed to shellfish' to embrace lives of reclusiveness and extremity. This is a story that radiates outward from the kernel of selfhood to family, society, and ecosystem"--…mehr
"After the dissolution of her marriage, a writer is transformed into a 'clam' via typo after her mother keeps texting her to 'clam down.' The funny if unhelpful command forces her to ask what it means to 'clam down' during crises: to retreat, hide, close up, and stay silent. Idiomatically, we are said to 'clam up' when we can't speak, and to 'come out of our shell' when we reemerge, transformed. In order to understand her path, the clam digs into examples of others who have also 'succumbed to shellfish' to embrace lives of reclusiveness and extremity. This is a story that radiates outward from the kernel of selfhood to family, society, and ecosystem"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Anelise Chen is the author of the experimental novel So Many Olympic Exertions, a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She is a 5 Under 35 Honoree from the National Book Foundation. Her hybrid memoir, Clam Down, is based on her mollusk column for the Paris Review. She has received residencies and fellowships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Blue Mountain Center, Banff Centre, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, NPR, BOMB Magazine, The New Republic, VICE, Village Voice and many other publications. Chen received her MFA from New York University and her bachelor’s degree from the University of California Berkeley. She is currently an assistant professor of creative writing and director of undergraduate studies in creative writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.
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