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.

A Tender, Heartfelt Graphic Novel on Healing and Kindness

It may make you tear up, but it's so worth it.

This Witchy Read is a Wild Ride from Start to Finish

If you love dystopian YA fantasy and morally grey characters, strap in.

On Art, Fashion, and What It Can Mean to Be Asian American

Put on some Robyn and crack open this wonderful essay collection.

Gotta Have Tea with Your Treason

Who hasn't wanted to run away to open a bookstore + tea shop and live a comfortable little life?

Stories That Reimagine the Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit of Asian Folklore

Come for the folklore, stay for the surprising stories.

An Eerily Accurate Portrait of 2024, Published in 1993

Have you read PARABLE OF THE SOWER? What did you think of it?

A Samurai Comes of Age in This Graphic Novel

What's the most unique setting for a coming-of-age graphic novel that you've read?

A Comic Anthology for Pride Month and Beyond

Dive into this comic anthology featuring 29 transgender and nonbinary comic artists sharing their unique coming out journeys.

This Poetic Queer Travel Memoir Is Both Heartbreaking and Hopeful

Poets write some of the best memoirs, and this one will have you feeling like you're in each of these cities.

Read This Action-Packed Korean Space Opera

"Today’s pick is a Korean space opera about love, grief, and the struggle to find one's place in the solar system."