Jose Vadis Inter State: Essays from California
b'Essayist, poet, playwright, and filmmaker Jos\\xe9 Vadi joins Eric Newman to discuss his debut essay collection, Inter State. Jos\\xe9\\u2019s first play, a eulogy for three, was the winner of the San Francisco Foundation\\u2019s Shenson Performing Arts Award. He is also the author of SoMa Lurk, a collection of photos and poems that spring from the San Francisco neighborhood of the same name, and his writing has been featured in a number of publications, including Catapult, McSweeney\\u2019s, New Life Quarterly, and our own Los Angeles Review of Books. The essays in Inter State move across a California that is at once family home and site of alienation, humming with possibility and on the brink of disaster, energetic and decayed.\\nAlso, Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness, returns to recommend Jorge Luis Borges\\u2019s The Aleph and Other Stories.'