Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler Just-Because The Village Voice

The Village Voice

Carvers in Kenya's western highlands craft the basic form for a cube tea light candle holder from soft soapstone

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Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay

Set in Harlem in the first decades of the twentieth century

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler Just-Because The Village VoiceA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. With her deft pen, she created stories speculating the devolution of the American empire, using it as an apt metaphor for the best and worst of humanity our