José Vadi Plumbs California’s Soul in ‘Inter State’

“I don’t want to die anywhere else,” writes José Vadi in “Inter State,” his new essay collection about California. Vadi explores what he calls our “disjointed mosaic of a state” from his vantage point as a poet, skateboarder, laid-off tech worker and grandson  of a Central Valley farmworker. We talk to Vadi about California and the variegated experiences of its inhabitants.