Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nikki High is taking a big leap with Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena. She's had her moments of doubt, but concluded, "We have to ...

A presidential character in the author's 1998 "Parable of the Talents" was inspired by Ronald Reagan, who used the campaign ...

In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, earthquakes and an addictive pharmaceutical that fuels a destructive drug ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes, you have to time travel to help heal generational wounds. "Kindred," a new FX series on Hulu, is based on the 1979 ...

Grant Hoskins noticed the uptick of people coming in for a certain book after the fires. The Vroman’s bookseller saw all sorts of readers, teens, college students, parents and grandparents, “as broad ...

Influential writer Octavia Butler’s literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel adaptation of “Parable of the Talents,” originally published as a novel ...

Every year, the Seattle Public Library partners with local independent bookstores and arts organizations to invite the city to read and celebrate one book as part of its Seattle Reads program. This ...