In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, ...

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

The brisk sales of Octavia Butler’s ninth novel ... For me, apart from just enjoying her writing, and I’m throwing the word enjoying broadly because a lot of it is bleak, just the lesson ...

Interview - Alsarah and the Nubatones are back after a five-year pause with their third album, Seasons of the Road, and it's ...

The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education meets tonight about displaced students as teachers expected to rally ...

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 tangentially at best, writing ...

Podcaster and author Lewis Howes breaks down his new book “Make Money Easy,” as many Americans are experiencing financial issues. Howes also speaks about his own arduous journey with money and ...

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Like Lauren Oya Olamina in Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower,” this dystopian narrator feels compelled to make a record of the end times; for both women, to write is to preserve a drop ...