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Jumbo NYPL Lebowitz Quote Mug

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NYPL Library Building Jogger Sweatpants

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Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories

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$ 35.00

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Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. She broke new ground with books that featured complex Black female protagonists--\"I wrote myself in,\" she would later recall--establishing herself as one of thepioneers of the Afrofuturist aesthetic. In 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, in recognition of her achievement in creating new aspirations for the genre and for American literature. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis ﬁrst volume in the Library of America edition of Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. 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