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Otherppl with Brad Listi

783. Isaac Fitzgerald

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 27 July 2022

ā±ļø 82 minutes

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Summary

Isaac Fitzgerald is the author of the memoir-in-essays Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional, available from Bloomsbury. FitzgeraldĀ appears frequently on The Today Show and is the author of the bestselling children's bookĀ How to Be a PirateĀ as well as the co-author ofĀ Pen & InkĀ andĀ Knives & InkĀ (winner of an IACP Award). His writing has appeared in theĀ New York Times, theĀ Guardian, theĀ Best American Nonrequired Reading, and numerous other publications. He lives in Brooklyn. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl InstagramĀ  YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello how are you welcome to the other people show I'm Brad Listy in Los Angeles. Thank you for

1:13.0

tuning in. Today on the program, my guest is Isaac Fitzgerald, author of a new book called Dirtbag

1:23.6

Massachusetts. This book is about a lot of different things.

1:28.4

One of it is my family blowing apart and kind of coming back together in a new and interesting

1:32.5

shape.

1:33.5

But at its core, it's about my childhood and the way I reacted to that childhood, not knowing

1:41.6

that I was reacting to that child.

1:48.8

That was Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts.

1:54.3

It's a memoir and essays that bills itself as a confessional.

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