CJ Lotz Diego
CJ Lotz Diego is a Garden & Gun deputy 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.
Arts & Culture
G&G contributors, editors, and Southern book lovers share new releases and old favorites to read right away this year—and a couple forthcoming releases already on preorder
Food & Drink
In Charleston, the food personality’s culinary treasures helped one writer make a new home. Then she shared the whole trove
The Southern Agenda
Test your knowledge of the South, and then stump a partner
Arts & Culture
Dozens of memoirs, novels, and nonfiction books that got us through a year unlike any other
Food & Drink
Our favorite guides to food and drink this year
Decor
How English craftsmanship, Palm Beach elegance, and one Virginia tastemaker sparked a decades-long porch party
Arts & Culture
In 1895, a Vanderbilt bachelor threw a holiday party unlike anything North Carolina had ever seen—and started a Southern tradition
Arts & Culture
Over a phone call from the road, the Southern author talks his new essay collection, books that inspire him, the unhealthiest scrambled eggs in history, and his spooky Halloween plans
Drinks
Julia Bainbridge, the author of a new drinks book, talks brine, Atlanta and Nashville spots, and why your bartender might know more than Instagram does
Arts
Fletcher Williams III draws, paints, and sculpts art from the region’s abundance
Books
The Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat star on her upcoming chat with Alabama legends, the wisdom of grandmothers, and why cornbread is so intimidating
Arts & Culture
The auction of Dorothea Benton Frank’s collections of cookbooks, dishes, and jewelry will support a writing fund in Charleston
Music
The Memphis-born, California-based chef cooks up the perfect late-summer playlist
Food & Drink
A state-by-state guide to bites and beverages, from regional delicacies to recommendations from locals
Books
A balm of beautiful photos, powerful memoirs, and fiction from beloved Southern authors, including Lee Smith, Jill McCorkle, and James Lee Burke
Arts & Culture
The prolific Southern novelist just might be the grandfather the world needs right now
Shops
For help planting a paradise at home, go where the wild things grow
Arts & Culture
A North Carolina stamp collector makes snail mail beautiful again—and shares why “this is no place for licking”
Home & Garden
An airy home in the woods draws one creative family to Cashiers all summer
Drinks
A trailblazing Southern sommelier picks her favorite “crushable” chilled wines in red, white, and rosé