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I had to read Octavia Butler’s Kindred in college and really, really hated almost every minute of it.  Not because of the somber story, in which a woman is mysteriously transported from 1976 Los Angeles to nineteenth-century Maryland, but because I find Butler’s prose style tedious and very annoying.  (Many, many people disagree with me, though.  Kindred is by far her most famous novel, and there are currently a quarter million copies of the book currently in print.)

Beacon Press, the Boston publisher, is looking to do a graphic novel adaptation of the book; if you’re an artist and you’re interested, email Allison Trzop, Beacon’s Graphic Books editor, at atrzop * at * beacon.org.

[via Bitch]