About this episode

Kathryn Stockett discusses her new book 'The Calamity Club' and the importance of characters in writing, while drawing parallels between the 1930s and today's women's rights issues.

This week's Difficult Woman is Kathryn Stockett, who, 17 years after the release of her hit novel 'The Help', joins me to talk about her long-awaited second book, 'The Calamity Club'. Kathryn tells Rachel why characters are so central to her process of writing and what she wants readers to take away from the novel. They also discuss the parallels between the 1930s and today's society when it comes to women's rights.

People in this episode

Host: Rachel Johnson

Guest: Kathryn Stockett

Topics covered

• women's rights
• literature
• writing process
• societal parallels
• novels

Keywords

• Kathryn Stockett
• The Help
• The Calamity Club
• women's rights
• writing process
• literature
• society

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Help, The Calamity Club

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