Who should star in the TV adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred?

You may have noticed that here at Literary Hub, we’re pretty big fans of Octavia Butler—and especially of Kindred, arguably her most famous novel. So we were very excited by the recent news that that 42-year-old book is finally getting an adaptation: FX has recently ordered a pilot, which was written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (a MacArthur fellow, Pulitzer Prize […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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