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CJ Lotz Diego

CJ Lotz Diego is Garden & Gun’s senior editor. A staffer since 2013, she wrote G&G’s bestselling Bless Your Heart trivia game, edits the Due South travel section, and covers gardens, books, and art. Originally from Eureka, Missouri, she graduated from Indiana University and now lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where she tends a downtown pocket garden with her florist husband, Max.

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Home & Garden

A vibrant new photo book celebrates homes with big personalities

A woman in a button down sits in a garden

Gardens

The design legend shares tips and stories in her beautiful new book

A composite image of Dolly Parton and an album for the Artemis Pyle Band

Music

Listen to Parton’s glorious take on the classic from a new album honoring the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Plus, an interview with former Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle

Mathis’s 150-vessel-strong Ozark Roadside Tourist Pottery collection in his Oklahoma City living room. The vessels have swirling, colorful patterns.

Arts & Culture

How the vibrant roadside vessels inspired an obsession

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a writing desk with a pen in his hand and a writing pad on the table

Arts & Culture

The bestseller’s author, John Berendt, on what he’d do differently and what it’s like as the book’s sole surviving character

Two women and a man roast marshmallows over a fire pit

Food & Drink

Etiquette, tips, and tricks—plus recipes for mulled wine, bourbon-spiked cider, roasted oysters, and the best s’mores ever

John Grisham and Jonathan Miles hold microphones while sitting next to each other at a table

G&G READS

The bestselling author also discusses his new book, The Exchange, in a candid G&G Reads conversation

Recipe

Plus, a new book shares a recipe for that other kind of biscuit he bakes for his British boss

A man walks along a pathway in a garden

Home & Garden

Garden pros share tips for giving your green spot a sense of Southern story

Home & Garden

In a captivating new book, the duo behind the popular Instagram account set the story straight on small Southern towns, shiplap, and why so many fading homes still have stories to tell

Arts & Culture

A Q&A with the author, who this fall resurrects his first big hit in a new thriller

Arts & Culture

We asked a former pilot, thriller writers, and James Lee Burke about the last moments of the F-35 saga in South Carolina that captured us all day

Music

Musicians reflect on the album that blasted out of little Doraville, Georgia, in 1973

Food & Drink

After the toughest season in memory, hope beams at small farm stands, markets, and even at your doorstep

Home & Garden

Make your green space a heaven on earth with these bucolic beauties

Food & Drink

An ode to the salty, cheesy, savory flavors of a West Virginia classic

Food & Drink

How to make Florida’s bright and refreshing pie, topped with homemade whipped cream

Food & Drink

With an Old-Bay-and-butter crust

Food & Drink

In her vibrant new cookbook, Stacey Mei Yan Fong shares fifty pies—including some wildly creative Southern recipes

Books

Spine-tingling page-turners from a longtimer and a rising writer