Calling All Booklovers
You never quite know what’s going to arrive in the mail at the G&G offices. Recently I received a stunning handmade wooden memorial for Pritchard, my late Boykin spaniel, from a reader in Madisonville, Louisiana, that truly stole my breath. There are always letters from readers suggesting ideas and occasionally giving a stern but loving correction about something we may have gotten wrong in the pages, a Southern tsktsk. Once we received a very pregnant-looking USPS box stuffed with black walnuts, and there have been countless country hams and numerous garage-crafted duck calls. But one constant is a litany of new books from publishers. Most of those volumes pile deep on senior editor CJ Lotz’s desk. Among other duties, Lotz keeps everyone apprised of what’s coming, works on the popular…
