TICKETED: Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman with Roxane Gay

Debbie Millman launches Love Letter to a Garden, a beautifully written and gorgeously illustrated devotional to gardening, creativity, and humanity, with original recipes from bestselling author Roxane Gay. In conversation with Roxane Gay, followed by a signing.

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In Love Letter to a Garden, Millman shares her journey to make and grow a garden, a process that started with child-like wonder in her grandparents’ backyard garden and grew into a lifelong obsession with flora— from tending handed-down houseplants to grief over the loss of a lone peony to harvesting her first potato. Millman grew (and often failed to grow) gardens in both New York City and Los Angeles, whose eventual bounty instilled both pride and joy.

Readers who love the tender storytelling of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse or the wonders of nature found in The Comfort of Crows will find much to enjoy in this book, which also includes ten delicious recipes—such as “Summery Panzanella” and “A Tomato Galette” from Millman’s wife, bestselling author Roxane Gay, using ingredients grown together in their garden.

Min Jin Lee says of Millman’s book: “I needed this passionate love letter—a gorgeous reminder to plant, tend, endure, wait, and discover, because only then will we gather our most nourishing dreams.” Love Letter to a Garden is an inspiring, fable-like work with many of life’s lessons contained within, certain to be shared and cherished for many years to come.

Debbie Millman has been named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by GDUSA. Millman is an illustrator, author, educator, and host of the podcast Design Matters. Broadcasting for 19 years, Design Matters is one of the first and longest running podcasts in the world. The show won a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2011, and Apple has named it one of their “All Time Favorites” three times. In 2023 the show won two Webby’s, three Communicator Awards, a Signal Award, three awards from The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, and earned an Ambie nomination. Learn more at https://www.designmattersmedia.com/

Roxane Gay is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the bestselling author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and New York Times bestselling Hunger: A Memoir of My Body. Learn more at www.roxanegay.com

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States