Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles, consumed by fires, and last week, the cemetery where the iconic author is buried caught fire amid the ongoing wildfires impacting communities across Southern ...
Although Butler passed away in 2006, her Parable of the Sower, " a speculative novel predicted the hell that's 2025.
1 MARTYR! (Vintage, $18). By Kaveh Akbar. A man tries to understand his tendency toward sadness and self-sabotage by writing ...
Octavia's Bookshelf, a Black-owned bookstore named after Octavia Butler, has transformed into a donation hub for LA fire ...
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...
Award-winning writer and author Jacqueline Woodson on how artists and creators should show up today and any day after.
The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...
For many African Americans who built their lives and businesses in historically Black communities like Altadena, the combined ...
Hollywood pays tribute to the irreplaceable artifacts and cultural touchstones that were destroyed, from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ ...
Octavia E. Butler and Mike Davis are just some of the Angelenos whose books can help us understand L.A.'s fires, plus Kristin ...