A lost manuscript explores the origins of the Grateful Dead
The book will be of particular interest, of course, to fans of the Grateful Dead, many of whom treasure any knowledge about ...
Beloved Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler’s Gravesite Survived Los Angeles Fire
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...
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The Fire Inside
Parents need to know that The Fire Inside is a coming-of-age biographical drama about the early career of acclaimed Flint, Michigan, boxer Claressa "T-Rex" Shields (Ryan Destiny), who was the first ...
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Bargaining with the Palisades Fire, I Buy a Pack of Edible Flowers
Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.
‘To anyone who lost their home in the #lafire I will paint it for free’
The Palisades Fire burned Charlotte Tragos’s home to the ground. The height chart from when she was a child was marked on the ...
There Is No Way to Retreat From the Risk of Wildfires
Mr. Davis’s ideas were shocking when the essay appeared, but the events of recent years have won a lot of people over to his ...
The L.A. authors who predicted these fires and the books to help us understand them
Octavia E. Butler and Mike Davis are just some of the Angelenos whose books can help us understand L.A.'s fires, plus Kristin ...
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Octavia Butler predicted fire disaster in Los Angeles in 1993 book 'Parable of the Sower'
Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...
The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...