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Lynell George is a Los Angeles-based writer. A former staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly, she focused on social issues, human behavior, as well as visual arts, music, and literature. She is the author of three books of nonfiction: The Hugo Award-finalist, "A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler," "After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame, and "No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels," a collection of features and essays drawn from her reportage. In 2017 received the Huntington Library’s Alan Jutzi Fellowship for her studies of California writer Octavia E. Butler and won a GRAMMY for "Otis Redding Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings" in the Best Album ...more

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	A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler 4.24 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speculative Los Angeles by Denise Hamilton (Goodreads Author) (editor), Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Lisa Morton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes inside the Gold Mine by David Kukoff (Editor), Jeremy Rosenberg (Contributor), John Densmore (Contributor) 3.68 avg rating — 133 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	No Crystal Stair: African-Americans in the City of Angels 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“* Don't leave your home without a notebook, paper scraps, something to write with.

* Don't walk into the world without your eyes and ears focused and open.

* Don't make excuses about what you don't have or what you would do if you did, use that energy to 'find a way, make a way.”
― Lynell George, A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler

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“I read too much science fiction and too little of anything else.”
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“Science fiction is a handful of earth, a handful of sky and everything around and between.”
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