Books can turn up in your life when you need them. What does the resurgent popularity of a dystopian novel say about modern ...

The LA central library’s Octavia Lab provides free access to recording studios, 3D printers, video editing software. All you ...

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 1993 ...

The works of Afrofuturist author Octavia Butler seem to be chillingly prescient ... and Afrofuturism” class at UCLA, calls “Parable of the Sower,” an admittedly “difficult” book ...

Altadena resident Nikki High opened Octavia’s Bookshelf in February 2023, inspired by the author. “People miss the blueprint of hope [Butler] wrote in Parable of the Sower.” It was with that ...

(AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by ... is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from “Parable of the Sower,” among her most famous novels: “All ...