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.
Home & Garden
A vibrant new photo book celebrates homes with big personalities
Gardens
The design legend shares tips and stories in her beautiful new book
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
Arts & Culture
How the vibrant roadside vessels inspired an obsession
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
Food & Drink
Etiquette, tips, and tricks—plus recipes for mulled wine, bourbon-spiked cider, roasted oysters, and the best s’mores ever
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
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
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
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