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.
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
Drinks
Plus, the tastemakers India Hicks and David Flint Wood share refreshing hospitality ideas in a beautiful new book
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”
Food & Drink
How to work your favorite road trip staple onto the dinner table
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
Arts & Culture
The bestselling author on the new cookbook that’s got him excited about shrimp gumbo, the novel he’s re-read at least five times, and his “method” for organizing books
Arts & Culture
Twenty Southern literary treasures, novels, cookbooks, and escapist thrillers.
Arts & Culture
Reconsider Spanish moss and picket fences in a must-see contemporary art exhibition that’s now open in Charleston
Food & Drink
In praise of light, bright, and fun home cooking this season, along with classic cookies and easy cocktails
Arts & Culture
Bruce Munro’s landmark exhibition of light and sound opens this week at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina
Food & Drink
A beautiful new Louisiana cookbook honors seafood, spring’s bounty, and friendship
Arts & Culture
Southern novels, armchair travel guides, rip-through-’em memoirs, and an ode to Foxfire’s enduring legacy
Arts & Culture
The Gee’s Bend quilter and arts advocate shines a light on the Boykin, Alabama, community of artisans
SOUTHERN STORMS
Not even an act of God was going to take Judy Wade’s pound cake