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.
We just had to put our Black Panther feelings somewhere.
Amazing black cosplayers sharing their work in #28DaysofBlackCosplay.
A reader discusses what the Black Panther comic and adaptation means to her, and shares some of the heartfelt, uplifting tweets from the #WhatBlackPantherMeansToMe hashtag.
The #28DaysOfBlackCosplay hashtag is happening on Twitter right now, in honor of Black History Month. Here's a roundup of some excellent contributions, and an introduction to the hashtag.
Because life occasionally requires you to be bawse, embrace your greatness, and get your sh*t together, here are 8 reputable books on adulting.
Google Play is now offering audiobooks across multiple platforms, using a pay-per-book model.
Twitter imagines what Hogwarts would be like if it were predominantly black with the hashtag #BlackHogwarts.
Bloomsbury Publishing just announced gorgeous house editions of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its first publication.
The BBC is streaming a new six-part radio adaptation of Anansi Boys!
The best cookbooks we've ever found, that we use over and over again.