Books by Brad Listi

A darkly funny meditation on creativity and family,Be Brief and Tell Them Everythingtracks the life of a middle-aged author who is struggling to write his next novel while trying to come to grips with his sons disabilities, set against a backdrop of ecological catastrophe and escalating human insanity in contemporary Los Angeles. A beautiful, powerful, concise work of autofiction that is reminiscent ofMy StruggleandGrief is the Thing with Feathers,Be Briefdocuments the stops and starts of adulthood and marriage, and the joys and challenges of parenting, while defining what it means to be a good man, and a good writer.