Jose Vadi's Interstate
Essayist, poet, playwright and filmmaker Jose Vadi joins Eric Newman to discuss his debut essay collection, Interstate. Jose's first play, A Eulogy for Three, was the winner of the San Francisco Foundation's Shenson Performing Arts Award. He is also the author of a 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's, New Life Quarterly and our own LA Review of Books. The essays in Interstate 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.
Also, Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness, returns to recommend Jose Luis Borges' The Aleph and Other Stories.