Books

The Southern designer and boutique maven shares advice and inspiring images from her new ode-to-the-coast book

Using his Tidewater Virginia roots as inspiration, the crime novelist has skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists with his genre-bending take on crime fiction

Mary Berry, the farmer, writer, and executive director of the Berry Center, talks about her love of place and what she has learned from her father, Wendell Berry

Diving deep on the mysterious author

How @landontalks, a Mississippi art teacher turned internet star, became a noted keeper of Southernisms

The celeb design duo inspires with stunning Tennessee digs (that welcome visitors!) in a new book

Plus, the stories and art behind her totally charming new book, Modern
Motherhood

How Renfrow Hardware in Matthews, North Carolina, shaped one novelist’s stories

In her new book, Ralph Lauren creative director Mary Randolph Carter advocates for cozy homes full of treasures and stories

In her debut book, Interiors of a Storyteller, Stephanie Sabbe intertwines timeless design with tales from a thoughtful life

A new chapter unfolds for one of Georgia’s literary landmarks

Journey through the seasons in coastal South Carolina via a sleeping green anole, bunches of yellow jessamine, and wading roseate spoonbills

In her new book, Living with Flowers, the beauty heiress shares how floral design goes far beyond the vase

In small-town DeFuniak Springs, the state’s oldest library still charms

The novelist’s writing plumbs the everyday to make magic

How the cafés, antiques, and community in this Atlanta suburb stole a gothic novelist’s heart

Paula Whyman dreamed of restoring a plot of land in the Blue Ridge Mountains—and found fertile ground for a memoir

Savvy booksellers are stepping up to satisfy readers’ cravings for spicy stories

In College Sports: A History, a century and a half of intercollegiate matchups goes to the replay booth

Gorgeous cookbooks, charming poetry collections, meditations on nature, and more delightful 2024 reading picks from G&G editors and contributors