Welcome to #38 of @alacarteblanche! I& #39;m so excited to share with you a little about the CNF pieces we published in our Visible/Invisible themed issue.

If you don& #39;t already follow these excellent writers, please do:

@elisehyrak
@teresempierre
Emily Townsend (who isn& #39;t on here)

First up: @elisehyrak& #39;s "Tomatoes."

This essay carries the reader to a place, and then sinks us into that place with food--the way food manages to bind us to each other and to a memory in the very best way.

I& #39;m thrilled to have supped with E in France. http://carte-blanche.org/articles/tomatoes/">https://carte-blanche.org/articles/...

I often know within the first paragraph if I want to publish an essay. @teresempierre& #39;s "The Big Comb" got me with the first sentence, the second, the third, and all the way through to the end.

It& #39;s an essay with power. Read it. http://carte-blanche.org/articles/the-big-comb/">https://carte-blanche.org/articles/...

And if you aren& #39;t following @teresempierre and @JennyHeijun& #39;s Book Looks series, you& #39;d better fix that.

https://twitter.com/teresempierre/status/1246074925183451136?s=20

https://twitter.com/teresempi... href=" https://twitter.com/JennyHeijun/status/1246073818243690500?s=20

In">https://twitter.com/JennyHeij... this dark timeline, these are bright lights.

https://twitter.com/teresempierre/status/1246074925183451136?s=20

The last CNF piece in issue #38 is Emily Townsend& #39;s "The Emergency Exit Is Closed: Find Another Way Out." It might be too close to home for some of us. For others, it might be exactly what we need. http://carte-blanche.org/articles/emergency-exit-closed-find-another-way/">https://carte-blanche.org/articles/...

I hope you enjoy the CNF I& #39;ve curated for this issue.

I know that each of these essays have challenged me, have transported me, have asked me to see the world a little differently, and in doing so, I& #39;m a better human than I was before reading them.