In the years since the 2009 publication of her book The Help, and especially since the 2011 release of the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name, Jackson, MS, author Kathryn Stockett has been not only a New York Times bestselling author, but also an American household name. On August 5, Stockett visits St. Francisville, where she and Baton Rouge Advocate correspondent Jan Risher will discuss The Calamity Club, Stockett's new novel, which follows the path of three marginalized women in 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, as they hatch an audacious plan to reclaim control over their fragile individual destinies. 5:30 pm discussion and book signing at The Freyhan Center 4727 Fidelity Street (doors open at 5 pm), with a bookish pre-game from 3 pm–5 pm at The Conundrum