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Anelise Chen is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University, where she is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her first novel, So Many Olympic Exertions, was published by Kaya Press in 2017. It was a VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Finalist. She is currently working on a second book, Clam Down (One World), based on her brief stint as the Paris Review Daily's "mollusk correspondent." She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Awardee. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, The Believer, McSweeney's, BOMB, The New Republic, NPR, Village Voice, Conjunctions, and more. ...more

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	So Many Olympic Exertions 4.09 avg rating — 737 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clam Down: A Metamorphosis 3.99 avg rating — 369 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Occupy Poetics by Thom Donovan (Editor), Brian Ang, Steve Benson (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Haven Review: Issue 021, Winter 2017 by Patrick John Flood, Christopher Thornton,, Laura Mayron it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I would rather be unhappy than be the kind of person who keeps an exercise journal.”
― Anelise Chen, So Many Olympic Exertions

tags: exercise, humor

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“Athena thinks she is exceptional at suffering, but actually the only thing she is really good at is procrastinating.”
― Anelise Chen, So Many Olympic Exertions

tags: procrastination, suffering

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“The runner is thinking of home. He thinks of the start of his favorite training run–the fartlek–two minutes on, one minute off. The mass of runners push and weave between each other like people funneling into the closing doors of a train. Towards the finish, he is usually the only person running, and there is nothing ahead of him but road, and it feels a little like communicating with God.”
― Anelise Chen, So Many Olympic Exertions

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