Fall is here. It may be slow in coming, the last breaths of Indian summer maintaining its humid stronghold on New York City, but it is, nonetheless, inevitable. Fall is my favorite season. I am still, and perhaps always will be, a student at heart and so, to me, fall is the season of new beginnings: when new books are bought, new courses are chosen and new people are met. It is a time of suspended promise and anticipation. In France, the beginning of autumn is called la Rentrée, the Return. For The Lattice Group, this fall is both the beginning of a new phase and a kind of return to where we began. After a year of travels and interviews, Vetta and I once again find ourselves in the United States, in New York, in order to continue our fervent proselytizing— albeit in a novel form. No longer living out of suitcases and chasing unsuspecting interview subjects across the cafes of foreign capitals, we are “nesting,” and with nesting comes the unraveling of materials collected, the compiling of lessons learned.
And so, after much unraveling and compiling, it is with great pride that I offer up the third edition of LATTICE. I want to express enormous gratitude for the editorial support of Lisie Mehlman whose sharp eye largely contributed to the success of this edition. Thanks to Lisie and our adventurous livers and writers, I dare (dare I?) claim that the third edition of LATTICE is the most exciting to date. The outlooks are diverse, the styles also. We find in this edition a sort of re-mix of the previous two. In keeping with the season, it is both a return to earlier ideas and a leap-off into new territory. The impulse to play is matched with the drive to work hard; tales heralding from foreign lands mingle with stories close to home. We hear from a stockbroker in Moscow, a teacher in the Bronx, a Peace Corps worker in Cameroon, a soul-searcher in Argentina, a start-up toiler in Manhattan and a mother in Massachusetts. We are even given news from our former Editor in Chief, Lauren Westerfield, as she returns to these virtual pages to make sense of her post-paralegal, post-Baja, post-Lattice life. Let us begin there.
- Astri von Arbin Ahlander
Editor
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