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Kathryn Stockett on “The Calamity Club,” 17 Years After “The Help”
Seventeen years after “The Help” became a publishing phenomenon, Kathryn Stockett is back with “The Calamity Club,” her sprawling, funny, devastating new novel and a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Kathryn joins Brian to talk about what really happened during those 17 years, including false starts, losing her publishing home, finding the editor who helped her see the book clearly again, and the moment she discovered the disturbing history that ultimately became one of the novel’s driving forces.
They also get into Depression-era Mississippi, compulsory sterilization and the eugenics movement…
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