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Maria del Rosario

"Finally, something of substance I could turn into work."

is a writer living in New York. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and is currently at work on a novel and a story collection.

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Maria del Rosario Says Hello

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A report from the field.

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Empty lots

OBJET Bakelite Bag

"It holds my secrets but also the mysteries of those that came before me."

on the cathartic potential of a second-hand bag. 

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The Bakelite Bag

Attention

We have distraction at home.

on yearning for focus in the contemporary novel.

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The attention plot

Grottos

Heaven and earth.

interviews Krista Mileva-Frank about curating Objects for a Heavenly Cave at Marta gallery in Los Angeles, closing on October 12th, 2024. 

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On grottos

Still Life & Citrus

“An orange did love / The man who ate it”

on citrus, still life, and the aesthetics of exposure.

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Ways of peeling

Jenny Holzer

The monument is the message.

on what goes said and unsaid in Jenny Holzer’s *Light Line* at the Guggenheim Museum.

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Downward spiral

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A formally inventive satire of the reject class.

on Tony Tulathimutte’s *[Rejection](https://bookshop.org/p/books/rejection-fiction-tony-tulathimutte/20988157?ean=9780063337879&next=t&affiliate=114129)*.

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Re: Rejection

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