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Melville House: Octavia E. Butler : the Last Interview (Paperback, 2023, Melville House Publishing)

“I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just turned out that it was …

The Last Interview

Less a parade of interviewers who haven't read her work asking the same flat questions than usual. She only had to mention Devil Girl from Mars once out of the ten and refer to Steve Barnes and Samuel R. Delany twice. Delany's intro is disjointed and abrupt, and I'm sorry she had to deal with some of the questions from Rosalie G. Harrison. I appreciated most the interview with Randall Kenan who showed his admiration and was actually interactive rather than robotically going through index cards.