Where I dove into one thing that I was interested in or that I loved, but then would kind of go into my own past or my own personal connection with that thing.īut then what happened, and this is what happens … you sit down to write and the piece changes. So I was picturing, actually, a lot of things like that. It’s about my love for my friend, Jef, but it was also about The Hold Steady, the band, and Craig Finn’s solo music career.
It’s very much about my time in San Francisco. The essay that’s in the book that’s a really good example of that is the “Hold Steady” piece. Isaac Fitzgerald: When I first sold this book, I was viewing it as a collection of essays that would not be connected, that would be about all sorts of different things.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.ī: “Dirtbag, Massachusetts” is being called a “memoir in essays.” How - and why - did you decide to approach your story with this structure? What did it allow you to do differently than a typical memoir? “And that’s been brilliant too.”īut, the author stressed, he still thinks it’s a funny line.īelow, Fitzgerald shares more with about his new memoir, what he hopes readers take away from it, and the way stories can be “lifelines.” “And I’m very happy to report, because this stuff isn’t in the book, but the book is bringing some really important and really loving conversations that I maybe wasn’t expecting,” he said. “So the thing that I can only hope for is that those lines of communication stay open and that we get to move forward as a family. … It’s still a growing, ever-evolving thing,” Fitzgerald said. “That is now the opening line of something that is really about my relationship with these two people and their relationship with each other, and where our relationship used to be and where our relationship is now. 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” - told it is both moving and wild to have the opening line he’s held close for years now be the start of a deep examination of his childhood and family.
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