Frances Mayes is the best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany, Every Day in Tuscany, A Year in the World, and numerous other works of prose and poetry. Her most recent book is The Tuscan Sun Cookbook. She and her poet husband, Edward...
Susan Orlean is the acclaimed, best-selling author of eight books, including My Kind of Place, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, Saturday Night and Lazy Little Loafers. In 1999, she published The Orchid Thief, a narrative about orchid-poachers in Florida, which was made into the Oscar-wining...
When I was 10 years old, my father read “The Hobbit” aloud to my sister and me over several weeks. Of course I didn’t realize it at the time, but the tale of how Bilbo Baggins gets dragged out of his comfort zone is...