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Club Calvi

Club Calvi

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 Mary Calvi hosts the book club where you pick what we read next. Club Calvi chooses three new fiction titles. Readers vote to decide the winner and then can engage with the author by asking their most burning questions in a monthly meetup. Every week, Mary talks with authors about their research, writing process, the journey to being published, and with book lovers about their favorite reads.CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Portions Recorded Art Literary History & Criticism
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  • Sadeqa Johnson on "Keeper of Lost Children"

    Sadeqa Johnson on "Keeper of Lost Children"
    Apr 15 2026
    Sadeqa Johnson's historical fiction novels have shared the emotional stories of Black women navigating love and motherhood in the 1950s with the book "The House of Eve," and the story of an enslaved young woman trapped in a notorious jail in Richmond, Virginia in the 1800s in "Yellow Wife." Mary Calvi talked to Johnson about her latest book "Keeper of Lost Children," which is based on the woman who found homes for abandoned mixed-race children of Black American GIs and German women during World War II. Johnson and Mary discussed the reasons why these children were left in orphanages, and why Johnson believes their story found her. Copyright © 2026 by Sadeqa Johnson. Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from the audiobook KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN, read by Ariel Blake, Karen Chilton, Adam Lazarre-White, and Sadeqa Johnson, published by Simon & Schuster Audio, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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    10 mins
  • Terri-Lynne DeFino on "Didn't You Use to be Queenie B?" (June 2025)

    Terri-Lynne DeFino on "Didn't You Use to be Queenie B?" (June 2025)
    Apr 15 2026
    To mark the paperback publication of "Didn't You Use to be Queenie B?" Club Calvi is sharing its meetup with author Terri-Lynne DeFino from June 2025 when she talked to Mary Calvi and answered readers' questions. "Didn't You Use to be Queenie B?" is a story of second chances and redemption. It's about a woman who was once a celebrity chef and reigned over the culinary world until she lost everything and vanished from public life. She meets a young cook and takes him under her wing. They share a love of food and troubled pasts. DeFino talked about how her love of cooking shows, and her son's battle with addiction, inspired the book. Audiobook Credit: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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    16 mins
  • Wade Rouse on "That's What Friends Are For"

    Wade Rouse on "That's What Friends Are For"
    Apr 8 2026
    Wade Rouse is known to readers for the 13 books he wrote under his pen name Viola Shipman, which honors the legacy of his grandmother. "That's What Friends Are For" is his first novel under his own name, and he told Mary it's his most personal novel yet. The book, based on the classic TV show "The Golden Girls," is about four gay men of a certain age who share Zsa Zsa Gabor's mansion in Palm Springs, but not all their secrets. Wade told Mary that the history of these men, and others over the age of 60, is relevant today.
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    10 mins
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