I think there's a temptation, an kind of reflective, like a natural reflexive inclination for people who were writing. And i tried that mode. The problem, even though the writing was probably pretty good on a line by line basis, is that that's not enough for a book to work. At the end of the line, if you're writing a book, you're writing for a reader. Sometimes i think you can be like, well, i'm writing this ecause i need to express myself. Ah, not of your reason. No, something to say.
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.”