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In Octavia Butler’s Pasadena, readers pick up visionary novel and find lessons in post-fire LA
Books can turn up in your life when you need them. What does the resurgent popularity of a dystopian novel say about modern ...
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Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler ... of science fiction, Butler grew up near Altadena, in Pasadena, and spent much of her life in Southern California before moving ...
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The bookstore preserving the legacy of Altadena author Octavia Butler
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 ...
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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 ...