In rural Tuscany, Italy, at the Santa Maddalena writer’s residency at her rambling estate there, Beatrice Monti della Corte has hosted some of the foremost storytellers of our time — Zadie Smith, Michael Cunningham, Colm Tóibín, Teju Cole, Sally Rooney, Olga Tokarczuk, Michael Ondaatje, Edmund White and a couple hundred others. While authors... See more