Be Brief and Tell Them Everything

Brad Listi

May 2022 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by Brad Listi

About this audiobook

A darkly funny meditation on creativity and family, Be Brief and Tell Them Everything tracks the life of a middle-aged author who is struggling to write his next novel while trying to come to grips with his son's 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 of My Struggle and Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Be Brief documents 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.

About the author

Brad Listi is the author of the novel Attention. Deficit. Disorder, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and hailed by the late Jim Carroll as "a perfect book about what we and the world are becoming." Brad hosts the literary podcast Otherppl with Brad Listi, and lives in Los Angeles with his family.