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

Many of the most well known books are direct political statements, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Octavia Butler ...

The dystopian America Octavia Butler imagines in her novels Parable ... the Future,” originally published in Essence in 2000, Butler reflects on an encounter with a student at one of her book signings ...

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At the fair, Devlin read from books by authors including Adrienne Rich, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Octavia E Butler ... despite many of us now finding most of our information online rather ...