Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused on creating safe spaces for queer teens, mentorship, and providing test prep instruction free to students. Outside of work, much of her free time is spent looking for her next great read and planning her next snack. Find her on Twitter at @Erica_Eze_.
"Toxic lesbian vampires," The Godfather-inspired Southern noir, a historical and personal look at land ownership in Hawai'i, and more.
There's a hellish romance, a 1910s merman romance, and four gay Asian men finding family in each other in the early aughts.
The books span from a very recent mega-bestselling thriller to 2024's It book, to a book by a certain Georgian-era fave.
Get ready for literary fiction set in Iran, a graphic memoir by a queer icon, a "toxic lesbian vampire" novel by a fantasy giant, and more.
There's the latest novel by poet Ocean Vuong, an indie, coming-of-middle-age Indigenous tale, a look at the cost of patriarchy, and more.
There are fantastical pirate adventures, a rekindled steamy summer romance, and even a classic by a modern great.
The books include *thee* book of 2024, a mystery with a 20-year-old case, and a meditation of the granularity of relationship dynamics and identity.
There's a witchy, Murder on the Orient Express-esque Golden Age mystery, moving memoirs by an activist and an Indigenous woman, and a queer story set in a changing land.
It's just the thing you need to remedy that doom scrolling.
Erica goes over a nice mix of new YA books by AAPI authors, while Kelly has a great convo with Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia, authors of the new rom-com On Again, Awkward Again.