Brad Listi

{{short description|American novelist}}

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Brad Listi is an American author and podcast host. His first novel, Attention. Deficit. Disorder., was published by Simon & Schuster in February 2006, and became a Los Angeles Times Bestseller.BESTSELLERS - #8 on Los Angeles Times List for FEB. 19, 2006 His second book, Board, co-authored with Justin Benton, is an experimental nonfiction literary collage published by TNB Books, the publishing imprint of the online culture magazine and literary collective The Nervous Breakdown,{{cite web|url= http://www.turnto23.com/news/14784755/detail.html|title= Non-Striking Writers Form Attention-Getting Blog Site|accessdate= 2009-01-27|last= |first= |date= 2007-12-06|publisher= ABC|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081201134621/http://www.turnto23.com/news/14784755/detail.html|archive-date= 2008-12-01|url-status= dead}} of which Listi is the founding editor. TNB has more than 1,000 contributors and featured authors and a monthly book club, the TNB Book Club. Listi's second novel, 'Be Brief And Tell Them Everything,' was released in 2022 by Ig Publishing.

In 2011, Listi launched the podcast "Otherppl with Brad Listi", which features in-depth interviews with contemporary authors. McSweeney's Internet Tendency included the podcast in its October 2011 McSweeney's Recommends column, calling it "funny, pointed, and thought provoking."[http://otherpeoplepod.com/archives/184 McSweeney's Recommends] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224022856/http://otherpeoplepod.com/archives/184 |date=2011-12-24 }}

Listi lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. He has taught creative writing at Santa Monica College.{{cite web |url= http://www.smdp.com/article/articles/864/1/Professor%92s-novel-leaving-quite-an-imprint |title= Professor's novel leaving quite an imprint |accessdate= 2009-01-27 |last= Herrera |first= Kevin |date= 2006-04-03 |work= Santa Monica Daily Press |publisher= |archive-date= 2006-07-02 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060702213841/http://www.smdp.com/article/articles/864/1/Professor%2592s-novel-leaving-quite-an-imprint |url-status= dead }}