A luscious sequel to Frances Mayes's bestselling memoirs Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany. Read an Excerpt from Every Day in Tuscany.
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About Frances Mayes

In addition to her Tuscany memoirs, Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, Frances Mayes is the author of the travel memoir A Year in the World; the illustrated books In Tuscany and Bringing Tuscany Home; Swan, a novel; The Discovery of Poetry, a text for readers; and five books of poetry. She divides her time between homes in Italy and North Carolina.

Interview: Every Day in Tuscany

Q: Every Day in Tuscany is your third book set in the small town of Cortona. What attracts you to the memoir form?
FM: I love the immediacy of present tense writing. Italy equals happiness to me and I like the challenge of writing about that state of being. In the books of poetry I wrote before my Italian life began, I was exploring the dark side—and that went on for many years. Yeats says that when he changed his syntax he changed his world. When I changed my world, my genre quickly shifted. This was a big surprise and gift.

Q: Since Under the Tuscan Sun you’ve written two photo-texts, a novel, and a book of travel essays. So, you don’t exactly stick to a genre. Why is that?
FM: Instinct. And I don’t like to fall into habits of writing. After all, I’m trying to entertain myself in these books! My novel Swan is set in Georgia, where I grew up. I’d long wanted to steep myself in that place again. And A Year in the World allowed me to stay in places where I’d dreamed of living. There is a thread: all my writing involves that Southern obsession—a sense of place.

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Frances's Links:

The Tuscan Sun

Festival del Sole

Tuscan Sun Festival

At Home in Cortona

Travel Dynamics International

Laneventure

Wildwood Lamps

Drexel Heritage

www.broadwaybooks.com

www.crownpublishing.com

Steven Barclay Agency

Curtis Brown


Sites to See:

Tuesday Recipe

Steven Rothfeld

Bob Krist

Images by Al Hurley

2or3things.blogspot.com

Good Bones Great Pieces

Kim Sunee

Chef Robin White

Cannelle et Vanille

Borgo di Vagli

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