You've said that auto fiction is very, very natural for you as a writer. But you also really appreciate it as a reader. And i was wondering why. Wouldn't you rather give in how curious you are and how interested you are in the details of a person's life? I think like with auto fiction, that's as close to the bone as my book is. This was just the way that i could make it work. And i wanted it to be as truthful as possible. As the saying goes, we can ouno, you can be more truthful in fiction than you can in non fiction.
Described as a darkly funny meditation on creativity and family, Brad Listi joins to talk about his new book, “Be Brief and Tell Them Everything.”