{"id":3385,"date":"2016-12-04T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2016-12-04T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T20:17:32","slug":"octavia-butlers-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2016\/12\/octavia-butlers-los-angeles.html","title":{"rendered":"Octavia Butler&#8217;s Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ParableOfTheSower1stEd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ParableOfTheSower1stEd-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"parableofthesower1sted\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ParableOfTheSower1stEd-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ParableOfTheSower1stEd.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>[contextly_auto_sidebar]<\/p>\n<p>THE posthumous rise of the science-fiction writer Octavia Butler, who died in 2006 and spent most of her life in and around Pasadena, CA, has been fascinating to watch. I&#8217;ve been interested in Butler since I moved out here and began to hear of her work, in the late &#8217;90s, and love one of her story collections. But I don&#8217;t know her life of output in great detail.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m looking forward to a tour of her life in Southern California today, put on by the LA arts group <a href=\"https:\/\/clockshop.org\/project\/radio-imagination\/\">Clockshop<\/a>. All the action &#8212; there have been panels and numerous events, some involving great LA scribe Lynell George &#8212; is driven by the acquisition of Butler&#8217;s papers by the Huntington Library.<\/p>\n<p>Butler&#8217;s Pasadena was very different than that Rose Bowl\/ Cal Tech\/ Protestant gentry side of the city that&#8217;s generally better known; she came from sternly religious Southern blacks, and started writing as a kid while her mother cleaned houses for wealthy white people. Butler, as an adult, took menial jobs so she could keep her mind free for writing and thinking.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, will report back; please watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar] THE posthumous rise of the science-fiction writer Octavia Butler, who died in 2006 and spent most of her life in and around Pasadena, CA, has been fascinating to watch. I&#8217;ve been interested in Butler since I moved out here and began to hear of her work, in the late &#8217;90s, and love one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34,30,29],"tags":[720,749,746,748,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-3385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-literary","8":"category-los-angeles","9":"category-west-coast","10":"tag-black-history","11":"tag-clockshop","12":"tag-octavia-butler","13":"tag-pasadena","14":"tag-science-fiction","15":"entry","16":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}