![]() ![]() From growing up in a Boston homeless shelter to bartending in San Francisco, Fitzgerald strives to take control of his own story and embrace the idea that one can be generous to oneself by being generous to others. He joined The Rumpus, a literary magazine, as the first employee in. ![]() His memoir-in-essays begins with a childhood moving at breakneck speed from safety to violence, a pilgrimage through trauma to self-understanding and, ultimately, acceptance. Fitzgerald is a frequent guest on The Today Show where he shares book recommendations. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents’ lives―or so he was told. Isaac Fitzgerald has been an altar boy, a bartender, a smuggler, and a biker. Many a Massachusetts reader-especially the guys - may feel this one. After reading it, I can see why this one had so much buzz- A TIME Best Book of the Summer, a Rolling Stone Top Culture Pick, and a 2022 New England Book Award Finalist, among others. Fitzgerald who was the first books editor at Buzzfeed, frequently shares reading recommendations on The Today Show, and is the author of the popular Substack newsletter Walk It Off. ![]() “Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional,” by Isaac FitzgeraldĪn instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller, I initially was drawn to the title. ![]()
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