A book lover’s best-kept secret: the Substacks and BookToks every reader should know
We look at the world of BookTok and the book clubs you'll wish you knew about sooner. Plus, the owner of Octavia’s Bookshelf ...
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The Pasadena Bookstore Taking Cues From Octavia E. Butler
A period of personal reflection during the 2020 pandemic inspired her to open her own bookstore in her and Octavia E. Butler’s hometown. “I wanted to create something that didn’t exist ...
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The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'
As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's ...
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Beloved Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler’s Gravesite Survived Los Angeles Fire
In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who lived in nearby Altadena, predicted the catastrophic Los Angeles fires. View this post on Instagram ...
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After fires, LA students yearn to get back to school, and a normal life
The historic fires in Los Angeles meant many students lost homes, schools, or both. Now, as some schools reopen, families are ...
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The L.A. authors who predicted these fires and the books to help us understand them
Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week we take a look at past books that touch on subjects related ...
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What We Can Learn From Octavia Butler in Times of Chaos
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ...
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Washington Post paperback bestsellers
6 PARABLE OF THE SOWER (Grand Central, $19.99). By Octavia E. Butler. A young Black woman in early 2020s California must navigate a society decimated by climate change and greed. 7 YELLOWFACE ...
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In Climate-Scorched L.A., the Burning Truth of Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction
Octavia Butler grew up in Pasadena with her widowed ... walled cul-de-sac proved to be a target for those with less: “[E]verything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs ...