{"id":3933,"date":"2019-04-04T16:47:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2019-04-04T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T17:15:17","slug":"accolades-for-mary-margaretalvarados-on-memory-with-no-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2019\/04\/04\/accolades-for-mary-margaretalvarados-on-memory-with-no-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Accolades for Mary Margaret Alvarado\u2019s \u201cOn Memory With No Devices\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Leah Veldhuisen \u201919<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While CC\u2019s Thesis Specialist\u00a0Mia (as she is known)\u00a0Alvarado has published much of her writing, including poetry and nonfiction, in magazines and journals including\u00a0<em>The Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, VQR,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Outside<\/em>, her recent essay is particularly exciting: It has been named a finalist for \u201cBest of the Net\u201d honors and selected to be published in an upcoming print anthology, <em>Omnibus!<\/em>. The essay, titled \u201cOn Memory With No Devices,\u201d was selected by president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux Jonathan Galassi to be part of this anthology.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado says the idea for this essay is \u201cpart of a long-time obsession with what is a machine, and who are we among them?\u201d It is also part of a series of lyrical essays Alvarado has written about the digital revolution that comprise a book-length manuscript, \u201cThey Say This Thing Works<em>.\u201d <\/em>She adds, \u201cI also wrote it to console myself; as I often write; and to revisit that girl that I once was, and offer her some mercy.\u201d The themes of memory and technology have been interesting to Alvarado since before \u201cOn Memory With No Devices,\u201d as she says, \u201cI am interested by the degree to which we are outsourcing the very act of thinking, and the many arts and practices of memory.\u201d Additionally, she says \u201cI am interested by how we remember, and what; how a self-mutates in time; how nations and peoples create or erase memories; and by how domestic technologies, like, say, a letter, can form a whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inclusion of this essay in <em>Omnibus!<\/em>is exciting and humbling for Alvarado, as she loves and admires the work of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. \u201cIt is an honor for Galassi to have read and then to recommend this writing,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado\u2019s essay can be found on the Cagibi website: <a href=\"https:\/\/cagibilit.com\/on-memory-with-no-devices\/\">https:\/\/cagibilit.com\/on-memory-with-no-devices\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leah Veldhuisen \u201919 While CC\u2019s Thesis Specialist\u00a0Mia (as she is known)\u00a0Alvarado has published much of her writing, including poetry and nonfiction, in magazines and journals including\u00a0The Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, VQR,\u00a0and\u00a0Outside, her recent essay is particularly exciting: It has been named a finalist for \u201cBest of the Net\u201d honors and selected to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2019\/04\/04\/accolades-for-mary-margaretalvarados-on-memory-with-no-devices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Accolades for Mary Margaret Alvarado\u2019s \u201cOn Memory With No Devices\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":3935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-kudos","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2019\/04\/author-pic_Mia-Alvarado-copy.jpg?fit=199%2C266&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}