From award-winners to childhood favorites, find out what Iowa City is reading with a roundup of the most checked out library ...

Octavia Butler gave us a new kind of science fiction: not only as one of the first writers to use history to talk about the future, and not only as one of the first Black women to do it, but by ...

During Black History month, Book of the Day is bringing you some interviews from the archives, including this one with author Octavia Butler.... Octavia Butler imagines a world without racism During ...

"Positive Obsession" is a beautiful biography of Butler that not only explores her work, but also the key historical and social moments that shaped it — and the literary styles Butler herself inspired ...

Octavia E. Butler has always been more than a writer. Her speculative worlds remain blueprints for how we might reimagine our future while dealing with the flaws of the present. The California-born ...

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For pioneering science fiction novelist Octavia E. Butler, writing was more than a profession. It was a form of survival, resistance and reflection. In “Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of ...

Before The Parable of the Sower became a staple on syllabi across the country, Octavia E. Butler was quietly living and writing in Lake Forest Park. From 1999 until her death in 2006, she made her ...

The genre — characterized by Gothic intrigue and a liberal arts aesthetic — grew out of Donna Tartt’s cult favorite campus novel, “The Secret History.” Here’s where to start. By Jenny Hamilton Reading ...

The opinions and views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the opinion of Byte or Byte’s editorial board. George’s study of Butler is undeniably distinguished, and ...

When Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred was assigned to me in a university literature course, I didn’t know what I was in for. Assigned books can be like wading into murky waters—you’re never sure if ...