Anelise Chen’s genre-bending book “Clam Down” sees an insightful metaphor in a text message typo. By Chelsea Leu Chelsea Leu is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in The Times, The New Yorker ...
A book talk by New Haven author Anelise Chen’s Saturday took an intergenerational turn as she called her mother, Marie/Su Ling Chen, to the front. In moving the spotlight to her mother, she figured ...
Anelise Chen is in distress. Her marriage is over, her job security as an adjunct creative writing instructor is tenuous, her mother is annoying her, and … she’s turned into a clam. “She hadn’t meant ...