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

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
Sally Adee
@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.)
Paperback, 2024
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Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American
Ian Macallen
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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Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill
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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If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery
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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Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
Oh man, Jennifer Egan’s ending for Manhattan Beach 💗🚨💗 https://t.co/11OsvIba8d
Paperback, 2018
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
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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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
Ben Westhoff
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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Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
Gary Kamiya
Love this, too, from Gary Kamiya's book Cool Gray City of Love https://t.co/yEslFFWlkV
Paperback, 2014
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A Man in Full
Tom Wolfe
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
Paperback, 2001
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