Getting to Suzy’s
This real life of cityscapes and sidewalks can destroy you.
José Vadi is an award-winning poet, playwright, and essayist living in Oakland, California. His writing has most recently appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, HOLD: a journal, McSweeney's and Catapult.
Enter your email address to receive notifications for author José Vadi
Success!
Confirmation link sent to your email to add you to notification list for author José Vadi
More by this author
Where José Vadi Writes
“I blame my first studio apartment for my habit of writing in kitchens.”
Standing in the Shadows of Brands: San Francisco at Dawn
When a city’s populace is wiped out of its longtime residents, so goes the collective memory of San Francisco.
Enter the Mars Volta
“Omar and Cedric turned center stage into a two-man prog version of Soul Train.”
More in this series
New Orleans During the End of the World
Cities are beautiful in the rain, but only New Orleans bleeds it.
Joan of Arc: The Girl Who Saves Cities
Statues and monuments tell us about ourselves mostly, what we hope to remember and be remembered by.
My Father Wishes He Were a Writer, Like Me
Writing was just something I thought happened to people naturally, that whatever wasn’t written was eventually forgotten. And I wanted to remember everything.