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Patricia Elzie-Tuttle

Patricia Elzie-Tuttle is a writer, podcaster, librarian, and information fanatic who appreciates potatoes in every single one of their beautiful iterations. Patricia earned a B.A. in Creative Writing and Musical Theatre from the University of Southern California and an MLIS from San Jose State University. Her weekly newsletter, Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice offers self-improvement and mental health advice, essays, and resources that pull from her experience as a queer, Black, & Filipina person existing in the world. She is also doing the same on the Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice Podcast. More of her written work can also be found in Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen, and, if you’re feeling spicy, in Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Patricia has been a Book Riot contributor since 2016 and is currently co-host of the All the Books! podcast and one of the weekly writers of the Read This Book newsletter. She lives in Oakland, CA on unceded Ohlone land with her wife and a positively alarming amount of books. Find her on her Instagram, Bluesky, and LinkTree.

All the Backlist! May 15, 2020

This week, Patricia talks about a couple great nonfiction backlist picks and her growing TBR!

Fascinating and Free Things Available on the Library of Congress Website

Prepare to fall down the rabbit hole of fascinating, fun, and intriguing free things that you can access from the Library of Congress website!

All the Backlist! May 1, 2020

This week, Patricia talks about a couple backlist picks including a hilarious YA romance!

All the Backlist! April 17, 2020

This week, Patricia talks about a couple great backlist picks including a sci-fi fantasy novel she absolutely loves!

All the Backlist! April 3, 2020

This week, Patricia talks about a couple great fiction backlist picks, including a multi-award winning graphic novel!

All the Backlist! March 20, 2020

This week, Patricia talks about a couple more nonfiction backlist titles including one of the "best books she has ever read!"

All the Backlist! March 6, 2020

This week, Patricia talks about a couple backlist titles that are by trans/nonbinary authors featuring trans/nonbinary characters!

All the Backlist! February 21, 2020

This week, Patricia talks about a couple more great books for Black History Month!

All the Backlist! February 7, 2020

This week, Patricia talks about a couple great Black history nonfiction titles!

All the Backlist! January 24, 2020

This week, Patricia talks about a couple more great nonfiction titles!

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