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Nikki Erlick

Nikki Erlick is a writer, editor and lifelong reader. Her work has appeared on the websites of New York Magazine, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, The Huffington Post, and Vox Media's The Verge. Her novel, The Measure, is scheduled for release in 2022 by William Morrow. Nikki currently works as a travel writer and digital editor at Indagare Travel. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, where she studied French and Spanish literature and was an editor of The Harvard Crimson. She also received an M.A. in Global Studies from Columbia University. Her portfolio can be found at nikkierlick.com.

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Nikki Erlick

Nonfiction

A Century of America’s Hidden Gems in “Waking Dreamers”

If you love U.S. history — and could easily imagine yourself whiling away an afternoon in the archives, delving deeper and deeper into the stories of America’s past — you’ll want to add a new title to your collection: Waking Dreamers: Unexpected American Lives, 1880-1980. Researched and written by BookTrib’s…
Nikki Erlick
July 23, 2020
Thrillers

Double Homicide vs Quirky PI Team in “Rigged”

A double homicide that catches even the local police by surprise. In Rigged (Oceanview), the fourth in the Jake Longly thriller series by D.P. Lyle, Tommy “Pancake” Jeffers, one of the sleuths at Longly Investigations, arrives in the quaint town of Fairhope, AL, to examine the finances involved in the…
Nikki Erlick
May 19, 2020
Thrillers

Mystery, Menace and Motherhood in “The Familiar Dark”

Amy Engel’s The Familiar Dark (Dutton) begins in the darkness, in the final moments of the life of Junie Taggert, a twelve-year-old girl murdered alongside her best friend, Izzy, and laid to rest in an abandoned playground. Junie’s single mother, Eve, receives the devastating news from her brother Cal, a…
Nikki Erlick
April 1, 2020