Discover how Octavia Butler's prescient novel 'Parable of the Sower' serves as a roadmap for survival in our chaotic times.

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire ...

In fact, Indie attends Octavia E. Butler Magnet School. Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk ...

These climate-fueled fires have also drawn renewed attention to the writing of the late Octavia Butler, who broke ground as a Black woman science fiction writer, and her novel, The Parable of the ...

Over the years, prominent Black artists would settle in the community, including Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier and famed science fiction writer Octavia Butler. Butler, who is buried in the ...

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire la ...

Before the fire, Pasadena — where Butler grew up — was a beautiful mountain area made up of working class hikers, horses and cowboys, and small businesses like Octavia’s Bookshelf ...

"I'd never experienced an excitement like that," Gerard Butler says of landing his first acting job Before Gerard Butler turned to acting, he studied to become a lawyer. Butler, 55, recently sat ...