José Vadi
José Vadi is the author of Inter State: Essays from California and Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens, forthcoming from Soft Skull Press. He lives and writes in California.
There There
Tommy Orange’s There There, set in Oakland, explores Native identity, dislocation, and the search for belonging. José Vadi considers how the novel reclaims visibility for urban Indigenous experiences.
There There
Tommy Orange’s There There explores modern Oakland’s complexities, Native identity, and the power of community amid shifting cityscapes and challenges.
Urgent Journeys, Broken Maps
In this newsletter, author José Vadi writes about navigating the Central Valley depicted by Manuel Muñoz in The Consequences, the California Book Club’s February selection.
Sick Boy
The untimely death of a skate legend is a humbling reminder that skateboarding is a discipline, practice, and ritual.
The Secret History
Jonathan Blitzer’s Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis is a vivid and necessary book.
A Pivot to Inclusion
Slow Impact, an Arizona skateboarding conference, lowers the obstacles.
See You at the Crossroads
Hua Hsu’s memoir, Stay True, embodies the passions of youth in the face of tragedy.
Filling Historical Gaps
Crowdsourcing names of Japanese Americans interned during WWII.
