Be Brief and Tell Them Everything

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 sta...