![]() He’s settled in Brooklyn now, where he has been living for a number of years.Īs somewhat harrowing and frenzied as the book can be, the essays also trace indelible moments of joy and a lifelong devotion to books and reading. That past spans living in the Catholic Worker’s homeless shelter in Boston, to living and working in the bars of San Francisco, to acting in a few porn flicks, and to round things out, Fitzgerald spent time in Burma, working with a group called Free Burma Rangers smuggling medical supplies over the Thai-Burmese border. ![]() ![]() Alexander Chee’s blurb on the back of Isaac Fitzgerald’s recently published bestselling memoir, Dirtbag, Massachusetts, reads: “He’s a ringleader for the circus in the House of Love.” And after reading this book, I think most people would agree that Isaac Fitzgerald is certainly at least that, and then some.ĭirtbag, Massachusetts is a memoir-in-essays about how a lost soul with a diamond heart manages to figure out - after a series of jet-fueled, drug-addled escapades - how to put together a life out of all the pieces left in the wreckage of his past. ![]()
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