Kristel Autencio

Kristel Autencio lives in Manila, Philippines and works as a technical writer for a startup. She’s an active member of a local book club and writes about books on her blog Fanarchism. Follow her on Twitter: @fanarchism.

Grounds for Murder: Maps and Floor Plans in Mystery Novels

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

4 Biographies That Deserve A Hamilton-esque Musical

Blockbuster Broadway history-based musical Hamilton recently dropped a streaming preview of the cast album via NPR’s First Listen, causing the ...

Grounds for Murder: Maps and Floor Plans in Mystery Novels

I love a good floor plan, especially when murder and mayhem are involved. Wait, let me backtrack a bit. Our ...

A Podcast Is Teaching Me How to Read Philosophy

I started listening to the Philosophize This! podcast a couple of months ago because philosophy had become one of those ...

Thematic Threads from Pages to Songs

We have previously talked on Book Riot about putting on music while you read, but I personally read in silence ...

Genre Kryptonite: Academics Down the Rabbit Hole

I love reading about academics who end up in the middle of conspiracy theories or obsessive hunts for serial killers. ...

On Sharing Books With Mom

When I was ten or eleven, a jacket-less hardback edition of The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough came into our home. ...

Our Complicated Relationship with Racism in Books

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...

The Brave New World of Spec Fic Magazines: A Primer

Speculative fiction is a vibrant field with a lot of exciting stuff written by genre veterans as well as up ...

Our Complicated Relationship with Racism in Books

This is a guest post from Kristel Autencio. Kristel lives in Manila, Philippines and works as a technical writer for ...