Unveiled last Friday at Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena, with illustrator John Jennings in attendance for a Q&A, the ...

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An Olivetti Studio 46 typewriter that belonged to Octavia E. Butler. As the author recalled: "I wrote my first ten books on a manual typewriter." Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait ...

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(Courtesy of Chronicle Books) So the focus of the evening was on coming together, as the event made clear in its title, “Sowing Community: Living with Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Parables.’” ...