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15 years ago, the daytime drama "All My Children" was cancelled ending Susan Lucci's iconic, 41-year portrayal as Erica Kane. It was one of the most famous roles on television. Lucci would continue to have success on...

Mary Calvi talks with New York Times bestselling author Ariel Lawhon about her new historical adventure novel "The Pirate Queen," and about the compelling character Lawhon calls "ferocious." "The Pirate Queen" is one of...

When Harlan Coben, the New York Times bestselling author of three dozen novels, with 100 million books in print, and more than a dozen of his thrillers adapted for the screen, talks to Mary Calvi about his memoir on...

Brenda Janowitz is an author very familiar to Club Calvi. Her previous novel "The Audrey Hepburn Estate" was a Club Calvi Readers' Choice in 2023. Mary Calvi talked to Janowitz about her new book, the young adult novel...

Jean Kwok shares with Mary Calvi how an emotionally difficult time in her life led to her writing her first novel of romantic fantasy, "Dominion," and her initial struggles in crafting the book's spicy scenes. Kwok is...

Mary Calvi talks to Charles Lachman about his latest nonfiction book that reads like a page-turning thriller. He told Mary that "They Shall Not See the Dawn" is the untold story about the greatest manhunt in history...

Mary Calvi talks to Chris Bohjalian about his new novel "The Amateur," which became an instant New York Times bestseller. The book opens with golf prodigy Mira Winston hitting a shot that kills a young caddie on a golf...

Bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray talk with Mary Calvi and answer questions from readers about their latest novel "A Pair of Aces." It was voted a Readers' Choice for Club Calvi, and was...

John Searles is known as a bestselling author of suspenseful thrillers, but he told Mary Calvi that his new novel of dramatic fiction is one that he's wanted to write for years. In the 1990s, Searles was hired by...

Abigail Savitch-Lew took a long, deep dive researching the history of her family and the history of a community in Brooklyn to write her debut novel "Livonia Chow Mein." She spent a decade crafting the story of a...

Daniel Silva is on a publishing streak that most authors can only dream about: all of his novels have been New York Times and international bestsellers. He talked to Mary Calvi about his latest book, "Ransom," his 29th...

One year before thieves in 2025 staged a brazen robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Jo Piazza had already finished the final draft of her latest novel "The Parisian Heist." Piazza told Mary that the book was born...

As the U.S. celebrates its 250th year of independence and its founding fathers, a new book celebrates a founding mother. Authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie talked with Mary about "A Founding Mother," their novel...

Author Kimberly McCreight is back with a thriller that takes readers inside the marriage of a wealthy couple caught in a deadly love triangle, and to an expedition on Mount Kilimanjaro that ends in tragedy. McCreight's...

Emma Straub turned her love for a boy band into her latest New York Times bestselling book "American Fantasy." It's about a 50-year-old woman who is recently divorced, empty-nested, and having problems at work, and who...