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Alexis C. Madrigal Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Alexis Madrigal is the co-host of Forum and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Hanging up the cleats here. Hosting @kqedforum, building Oakland Garden Club

9 books
Book Cover for: Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American, Ian Macallen

Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American

Ian Macallen
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TIL Chef Boyardee was a real dude… Ettore Boiardi. Seriously. Just one of like three thousand fascinating things I’ve learned from @IanMacAllen’s book Red Sauce. https://t.co/jRWjNdYYO3

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds, Sally Adee

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

Sally Adee
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@Sally_Adee @TheMollieJean @HachetteUS Was looking for info on the “electrome” and found you not only beat me there by a decade but wrote the absolute best thing on it! Cannot wait to read We Are Electric. (I came into it sideways via plant electromes.)

Hardcover, 2023

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Book Cover for: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Eugene O'Neill

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill
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Oh man, @lsshnkr suggested Eugene O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey Into Night and ... YESSS https://t.co/MgZ0sYvQyE

Paperback, 2002

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Book Cover for: If I Survive You, Jonathan Escoffery

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery
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Let me tell you: this book is GOOD. Like, GOOD GOOD. If you’re a writer, it will give you that jealous feeling where someone has conjured a (the?) whole world.

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan

Manhattan Beach

Jennifer Egan
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Oh man, Jennifer Egan’s ending for Manhattan Beach 💗🚨💗 https://t.co/11OsvIba8d

Paperback, 2018

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Book Cover for: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
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Oh man, @lsshnkr suggested Eugene O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey Into Night and ... YESSS https://t.co/MgZ0sYvQyE

Paperback, 1991

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Book Cover for: Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic, Ben Westhoff

Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

Ben Westhoff
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This book ~Fentanyl, Inc.~ by Ben Westhoff is worrisome. Fentanyl is only one of many novel drugs spreading across the world with unprecedented speed and unpredictable effects. Meanwhile, just this one drug has laid waste to decades of research and practice on safer drug use. https://t.co/vP3OjVd22y

Paperback, 2020

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Book Cover for: Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco, Gary Kamiya

Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

Gary Kamiya
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Love this, too, from Gary Kamiya's book Cool Gray City of Love https://t.co/yEslFFWlkV

Paperback, 2014

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Book Cover for: A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe

A Man in Full

Tom Wolfe
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Tom Wolfe annoys me for a variety of reasons, but I have remembered this little description of San Francisco from the perspective of a frozen warehouse in the East Bay since I was maybe 15 (from A Man in Full) "all at once life is a lovely little operetta from the year 1910" https://t.co/9cdl0VlTNQ

Hardcover, 1998

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