"We have not heard about the thing to put things in, the container for the thing contained. That is a new story."
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction


Before there was the tool to fight with, there was the tool to bring things home. The Carrier Bag Magazine is a collective interested in the unique experiences of the mundane, the odd, and the forgotten.

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There is nothing more mundane and sacred than breaking bread. Consumption is fundamental to life. Everything falls somewhere on the food chain. This cycle of consumption isn’t limited to what’s at the table. This issue we ask you to consider: what is it that we consume in a day, a week, a month? Most intimately, we ask you to consider: what consumes you?

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