At Santa Maddalena, a Retreat for Writers, ‘Literature is the Primary Value’

If the baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte has found a secret to life, it is stories. At the Santa Maddalena writer’s residency at her rambling estate in rural Tuscany, Monti has hosted some of the foremost storytellers of our time — Zadie Smith, Michael Cunningham, Colm Tóibín, Teju Cole, Sally…

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