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Oct 10

Merging science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s early unpublished writings and drawings with literary analysis and memoir, Chi-ming Yang’s new book, Octavia E. Butler: H Is for Horse, maps out the making of a genius. The book offers a look at Butler’s childhood interests, including horses, Martians, Western novels, and racial justice, and how those morphed into a fascination with human-alien symbiosis and supernatural beings that defy the constraints of gender, race, and class. The book is organized in 26 short A-Z chapters, which pay homage to Butler’s love of library research and both writers’ experiences of the public library as a sanctuary. (Elliott Bay

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