Why it’s time for Octavia E. Butler and the ‘Parables’ at The Huntington
In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, ...
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Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena ...
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The Altadena story, from Jackie Robinson’s home to ground zero
Altadena was a bastion for Black homeownership, but the January wildfires in Los Angeles have put these residents in a precarious situation.
Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Predicted LA Fires In “Parable Of The Sower”
Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... The Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, home to Butler’s final resting place, was caught in the >report to the Associated Press ...
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In Octavia Butler’s Pasadena, readers pick up visionary novel and find lessons in post-fire LA
Her papers are in the Octavia E. Butler Archives at the Huntington Library. The Eaton fire came close to Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery, where Butler is buried. “It’s still very popular ...
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Mom’s the Word: Altadena artists are going the hard way together
Of course there are the writers, from Zane Grey to Octavia Butler, and Naomi Hirahara, Michele Zack and Jervey Tervalon. But as a piano-lesson-dropout, I knew of Altadena’s art and music scene ...
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A visit to a lab of the future, tucked away in Downtown LA
For Octavia Butler, LA’s downtown public library was a place of refuge. Butler was born in Pasadena, lived in Altadena, and did a lot of her writing at the Central Library in Downtown Los Angeles. She ...