Author: Camille Dungy

Additionally, this issue includes an interview with Camille and spotlights SOIL in audio and in print! Read more about the June 2023 issue of Booklist here!

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Check out Tess Taylor and CNN’s interview with Camille!

Read the list: “Out West Books has suggestions to get your garden growing beautifully“

Read the review.

20. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, Random House, $30.00, 9780593133231

21. Magnolia Table, Volume 3: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering
Joanna Gaines, William Morrow Cookbooks, $40.00, 9780062820174

22. Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
Michio Kaku, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385548366

23. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Simon Winchester, Harper, $35.00, 9780063142886

24. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)
Admiral William H. McRaven, Grand Central, $25.00, 9781538707944

25. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
Camille T. Dungy, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781982195304

See the full list here.

Read the excerpt here.

“SunLit: Tell us this book’s backstory. What inspired you to write it? Where did the story/theme originate?

Camille Dungy: I’d been interested in writing a book about what grew up from the soil around me. A nature book. I won a Guggenheim fellowship that offered me the opportunity to pursue this goal in 2020. Perhaps you remember some of the things that happened in 2020. That was a pretty complicated year.”

Read the rest of the interview here.

“On land stewardship, the quest for progress over perfection, resiliency, and rhubarb.”

Read the conversation here!

“Her prose, like her garden, is full of color, detail, and sharp, unexpected life.” Read the full review here.