The Lives of Writers

Brad Listi

Episode Summary

Michael talks with Brad Listi about starting The Nervous Breakdown, developing the Otherppl podcast, his co-authored literary collage BOARD, his new autofiction novel BE BRIEF AND TELL THEM EVERYTHING, how his life got Buddhist and literary, balancing self-expression with the concerns of a reader, podcasts and books as engagements with consciousness, Twitter, psychedelics, confusion, the connection of his new book to his first book, and a new project about the last 100 days of 2020.

Episode Notes

Michael talks with Brad Listi about starting The Nervous Breakdown, developing the Otherppl podcast, his co-authored literary collage BOARD, his new autofiction novel BE BRIEF AND TELL THEM EVERYTHING, how his life got Buddhist and literary, balancing self-expression with the concerns of a reader, podcasts and books as engagements with consciousness, Twitter, psychedelics, confusion, the connection of his new book to his first book, and a new project about the last 100 days of 2020.

Brad Listi is the author of the novel Be Brief and Tell Them Everything (IG Publishing, 2022). His other books include the novel Attention. Deficit. Disorder and the nonfiction literary collage Board, co-authored with Justin Benton. He is the founding editor of The Nervous Breakdown and the host of the literary podcast Otherppl.

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.