The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...

Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are leaning into Butler’s Afrofuturistic vision to save hearts “in the midst of stress.” By Aaron Foley In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler ...

The West Coast is on fire. Sea level rise is slowly eating away at our shores, and record-breaking floods have come for the Midwestern states. Wealth ...

6 DEMON COPPERHEAD (Harper Perennial, $21.99). By Barbara Kingsolver. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a boy born in a trailer in Appalachia faces the challenges of childhood poverty with ...

In 1992, while Octavia E. Butler was writing her novel Parable of the Sower, Los Angeles was hitting bottom. The acquittal of ...

A new book club has formed to give black women a voice to be heard and seen together. Erie Black Feminist Book Club held its second meeting Saturday morning. The group ...

We look at the world of BookTok and the book clubs you'll wish you knew about sooner. Plus, the owner of Octavia’s Bookshelf ...

After realizing her business survived the Eaton Fire, Nikki High, opened her bookstore’s shelfs for donations and offered ...

Octavia Butler's novel "Parable of the Sower" is gaining attention for its eerily accurate predictions of the current societal collapse. The book, which was written in 1993, explores a future ...