Monday, June 8, 2020

Octavia Butler at the Huntington Library


A color photograph of Octavia Butler's notes in green, red, and blue ink: "Tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know. Make people Feel! Feel! Feel!"

Now that your interest is piqued from last Friday's post about the Octavia Butler Archive at Huntington Library, check out this article announcing their exhibition, "Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories" (https://www.huntington.org/octavia-butler). Per the article, Huntington Library acquired Butler's papers in 2008, which amounted to over 8,000 items! Butler was in the habit of writing herself motivational notes along with the drafts of her stories and novels, making her archive a particularly lively one. 

Perhaps we need to take a roadtrip of our own to California....

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