https://www.publicbooks.org/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:20:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/my-neighbor-octavia/#comment-1 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 15:27:32 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=8521#comment-1 What lovely story. Such a gift, that the offer of a ride brought you into Octavia Butler’s world. And that skipping school may well have provided the quiet, singular voice with the setting for her final novel. “Squandered?” I think not.

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