Reviewers & Critics
IF YOU’VE been on Twitter in the past decade, you have likely come across the popular hashtag #FridayReads, created by Bethanne Patrick in 2009. Patrick, who has more than 212,000 Twitter followers, has worn many hats within the literary community since the late 1990s—author, editor, book reviewer, interviewer, curator, and more. She is an avid champion of books and writers, always careful to shine a light on emerging authors as well as known personalities.
Patrick is a graduate of Smith College and received her master’s degree in English from the University of Virginia. She has held editorial positions at , AOL, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, and the and was a host of “The Book Studio,” an author interview show that ran on the PBS station WETA in the Washington, D.C., area for four years. Currently a contributing editor and, for which she has a monthly column; NPR Books, for which she covers mysteries and thrillers; , with her column Carry-On Companions; and many other publications, including , the , and the . Her author profiles have appeared in the , the , , the , and the , and her essays have been published online by , , and the . She is the author of (National Geographic Books, 2011) and editor of (Regan Arts, 2016). She is currently writing a memoir for publication by Counterpoint Press.
