Ready to Go Off
Jenny Turner, 18 February 2021
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
by Lynell George.
Angel City, 176 pp., $30, November 2020,978 1 62640 063 4 Show More
by Lynell George.
Angel City, 176 pp., $30, November 2020,
‘Kindred’, Fledgling’, Collected Stories’
by Octavia E. Butler, edited by Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl.
Library of America, 790 pp., $31.50, January 2021,978 1 59853 675 1 Show More
by Octavia E. Butler, edited by Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl.
Library of America, 790 pp., $31.50, January 2021,
“... Wiener … Fish Sticks … T Paper’. ‘The archive is vast and frankly, imposing,’ Lynell George reports in the book she made from her exploration of it, a sensitive combination of facsimile scraps, biographical fragments and indirect-discourse speculation. George herself is Black and Los Angelena, and ... ”
