I first met Isaac Fitzgerald at the Bell House in Brooklyn when The Rumpus was co-hosting a holiday party. I had just started writing for the site, and he had previously served as managing editor. A few years later we both read at the Manhattanville Reading Series in Crown Heights where he read an essay, portions of which would appear in Dirtbag, Massachusetts, his coming-of-age memoir where he examines his relationship with his parents and refl…
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