Kathryn Stockett Has Finally Followed Up ‘The Help’

It was a blockbuster hit, yet she says she was “fired” by her publisher. After a spell in Bali, she’s back on home turf with “The Calamity Club.”“It’s impossible to write about a place like Mississippi, especially in the 1930s, and not talk racism and sexism,” Kathryn Stockett says of her new novel, “The Calamity Club.”