On the West Coast in his twenties, Fitzgerald transforms from barroom punk to office worker, gaining and losing friends along the way. He goes from outcast to insider, invited on trips with rich friends’ families to Nantucket, Miami, and New York City. After a difficult early adolescence in an old mill town, Fitzgerald lands a full ride to a swanky boarding school, where he arrives-without so much as bedsheets-to fend for himself among the children of the New England elite. This eventful personal history follows Fitzgerald from his birth as the surprise child of an affair, to his tumultuous Catholic upbringing in blue-collar Boston and rural Massachusetts, to his young adulthood of service-industry work in a legendary San Francisco bar and beyond. This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Isaac Fitzgerald, whose memoir-in-essays, Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional, is out today from Bloomsbury.
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