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Octavia Butler photo by Patti Perret

Celebrate Octavia Butler at Third Place Books June 23, 2025

From Third Place Books in Seattle: June 22nd marks the 78th birthday of former Lake Forest Park resident Octavia Butler, the trailblazing author of The Parable of the Sower and the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction. Butler lived in the neighborhood of Lake Forest Park from 1996 until …

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Ryan Boudinot: Seattle and UNESCO’s City of Literature Program

Author Ryan Boudinot (Blueprints of the Afterlife, The Littlest Hitler) delivered the following speech at the reading celebrating Elliott Bay Book Company’s 40th Anniversary on June 30, 2013.  Before I address the subject of Elliott Bay Book Company’s future, I’d like to acknowledge a few people. First, the extraordinarily well-read, friendly, tireless, generous, and in one particular …