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.
This week, Patricia talks about a couple great backlist titles including some fiction that blew her mind!
This week, Patricia talks about a couple great backlist titles for Black History Month!
This week, Patricia talks about a couple backlist titles including one nonfiction book that packs a punch!
This week, Patricia talks about a couple backlist titles including some short stories by one of sci-fi’s greatest authors!
This week, Patricia talks about a couple backlist titles including a graphic memoir that became an award-winning musical!
This week, Patricia talks about a couple great backlist titles including a book like nothing she’s ever read!
This week, Patricia talks about a couple queer, witchy backlist titles for Friday the 13th!
This week, Patricia talks about a couple supernatural backlist titles for Halloween!
This week, Patricia talks about a couple nonfiction backlist titles including a book on feminism she reads annually!
This week, Patricia talks about a couple great backlist titles including an absolutely magical book about sorcerers in London!