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On Parable of the Sower: About Octavia Butler, Including Interviews

About Octavia Butler, Including Interviews

Barnes, Steven, and Tananarive Due. 2006. “All That She Touched.” Black Issues Book Review, June 2006. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/217759578/abstract/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/118.

Bonobo, Anu. 2006. “Octavia Estelle Butler.” Fifth Estate, Fall 2006. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/195852845/abstract/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/137.

Boyd, Herb. 2006. “Octavia Butler, Writer of Great Imagination, Is Dead at 58.” New York Amsterdam News, March 2, 2006. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/390434373/abstract/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/132.

———. 2018. “Octavia Butler, the Doyenne of Sci-Fi.” New York Amsterdam News, September 6, 2018, sec. IN THE CLASSROOM. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/2111109707/citation/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/74.

Butler, Octavia E. 2010. Conversations with Octavia Butler. Literary Conversations Series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. https://alliance-evergreen.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01ALLIANCE_EVSC/16r7vr6/alma99146080900001451.

DeRose, Adam. 2020. “Octavia Butler.” Hill, October 2020. http://search.ebscohost.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=146402247&site=ehost-live.

Due, Tananarive. 2019a. “In Honor of Octavia Butler.” Essence, September 2019. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/2283246365/abstract/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/50.

———. 2019b. “Inside My 90-Minute Visit With Octavia Butler.” Essence, October 4, 2019. https://www.essence.com/entertainment/only-essence/octavia-butler-interview/.

George, Lynell. 2020a. A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler. Angel City Press. https://alliance-evergreen.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01ALLIANCE_EVSC/16r7vr6/alma99900374932001845.

———. 2020b. “‘A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky’ Reveals Octavia E. Butler’s Early Life in Pasadena.” Los Angeles Times, November 11, 2020, sec. Books. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-11-11/octavia-butler-a-handful-of-earth-a-handful-of-sky-lynell-george.

Govan, Sandra Y. 2005a. “Going to See the Woman: A Visit with Octavia E. Butler.” Obsidian III 6/7 (2/1): 14-39,264. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/206758283/abstract/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/105.

———. 2005b. “Sometimes I Sit Here, and I Wonder... Octavia E. Butler Passed This Way Once 1947-2006.” Obsidian III 6/7 (2/1): 12-13,264. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/206758181/abstract/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/125.

Hampton, Dream. 2006. “Parable of the Writer.” The Village Voice, March 8, 2006. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/232283062/abstract/9C80C7390AC44CECPQ/4.

Hampton, Gregory. 2006. “In Memoriam: Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006).” Callaloo 29 (2): 246–48. http://www.jstor.org.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/stable/3805596.

“Interview: Octavia Butler Reflects on the Year 2001.” 2001. Weekend Edition Saturday, December, 1. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/189928952/citation/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/151.

Italie, Hillel. 2020. “Octavia Butler’s ‘Dawn,’ ‘Kindred’ and ‘Parable of the Sower,’ Still Resonate.” USA Today, May 7, 2020. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/05/07/octavia-butlers-dawn-kindred-and-parable-sower-still-resonate/3088535001/.

Jackson, H. Jerome. 1994. “Sci-Fi Tales from Octavia E. Butler.” The Crisis, April 1994. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/199662251/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/49.

McHenry, Susan. 1999. “Botherworldly Vision: Octavia Butler.” Essence, February 1999. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/223164654/abstract/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/56.

Mehaffy, Marilyn, and AnaLouise Keating. 2001. “‘Radio Imagination’: Octavia Butler on the Poetics of Narrative Embodiment.” MELUS 26 (1): 45–76. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/203708424/abstract/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/67.

NationalBlackTheatre. 2018. Parables In Iteration: A Closer Look At Octavia Butler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmrDkKZeC7U.

OÇonnor, Margaret Anne. 1984. “Dictionary of Literary Biography -Octavia E. Butler (22 June 1947-).” In Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955,. Vol. 33. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale. https://go-gale-com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T002&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&hitCount=5&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CJQXIIA109592825&docType=Biography&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=DLB-MAIN-ARCHIVE&prodId=DLBC&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CJQXIIA109592825&searchId=R2&userGroupName=evergreenst&inPS=true.

“Octavia Butler:  Publications.” n.d. Octavia E. Butler. Accessed February 12, 2021. https://www.octaviabutler.com/publications.

“Octavia Butler: Writing Herself Into The Story.” 2017. Morning Edition, July. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/1918638418/citation/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/124.

Onion, Rebecca. 2020. “Why So Many Readers Are Turning to Octavia Butler’s Apocalypse Fiction Right Now.” Slate Magazine. September 19, 2020. https://slate.com/culture/2020/09/octavia-butler-parable-of-the-sower-talents-pandemic.html.

Page, Lisa. 2006. “Kindred Spirit: Science Fiction Author Octavia Butler.” The Crisis, June 2006. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/199772766/abstract/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/60.

Potts, Stephen W., and Octavia E. Butler. 1996. “‘We Keep Playing the Same Record’: A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler.” Science Fiction Studies 23 (3): 331–38. http://www.jstor.org.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/stable/4240538.

Reagon, Toshi, and adrienne marie brown. n.d. “‎Octavia’s Parables on Apple Podcasts.” Apple Podcasts. Accessed February 12, 2021. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/octavias-parables/id1519024926.

See, Lisa. 1993. “Octavia E. Butler.” Publishers Weekly 240 (50): 50.

Sieck, Jennifer. 2020. “Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum: Octavia E. Butler’s Typewriter as Time Machine.” Washington Informer, September 17, 2020, sec. LIFESTYLE. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/2444516421/citation/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/143.

Simpson, Bakari. 2006. “Fallen Author Octavia Butler Not Forgotten in the Realm of Sci-Fi.” Call & Post, April 13, 2006. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/238476569/abstract/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/76.

Steinem, Gloria. 2016. “Gloria Steinem on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Earlybirdbooks.Com. February 26, 2016. https://earlybirdbooks.com/gloria-steinem-on-octavia-butler.

Sturgis, Amy H. 2006. “The Parables of Octavia Butler.” Reason, June 2006. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/203383129/abstract/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/97.

Targeted News Service. 2020. “As Part of Its Centennial Celebration, the Huntington Seeds a New Fellowship in Honor of Octavia E. Butler,” August 20, 2020. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/2435518569/citation/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/81.

Terry, Jennifer. 2019. “Time Lapse and Time Capsules: The Chronopolitics of Octavia E. Butler’s Fiction.” Women’s Studies 48 (1): 26. http://search.proquest.com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org/docview/2222646564/C67D46AF430A4C4FPQ/57.

Williams, Juan. 2000. “No Headline In Original.” Talk of the Nation. NPR. 

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