“I say you’re not done becoming yourself.” The result is a marvelous coming-of-age story that’s as wily and raunchy as it is heartfelt. “To any young men out there who aren’t too far gone,” he writes. As he takes readers along on his search for salvation, he barrels through many venues-from San Francisco to Southeast Asia to Brooklyn to Kilimanjaro-recounting the “conversations that changed me” and eventually helped him overcome old ideals of masculinity and untangle his complicity in a racist society (in his case, “hipster racism”). In his poem What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American, the poet Richard Hugo writes You blame this neighborhood for your failure. Significado de dirtbag en inglés dirtbag noun C very informal uk / dt.bæ / us / dt. things openly,” Fitzgerald buried his past in drinking, drugs, and porn: “bonding relationships,” he writes in “The Armory,” “were based on the consumption of porn and communal jerking off.” By his mid-20s, he was “on the other side” starring in pornos. Dirtbag, Massachusetts (a name a friend of his gave to a town in Massachusetts) is a collection of essays in which he focuses on periods of his life from early childhood to the present. Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a book by and for hard-drinking but softhearted men like these, and for those who take voyeuristic pleasure in their ne’er-do-well ways. MARLON JAMES, author of Moon Witch, Spider King. Fitzgerald nestles comfortably on a bar stool beside writers like Kerouac, Bukowski, Richard Price and Pete Hamill. In “Family Stories,” he charts the “stained and tattered map” of his dysfunctional Catholic parent’s lives and their bumpy road from “city poor to country poor.” A poster child of the “classic New England family, incapable of discussing. It’s the rare writer who reveals, and Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a heart on the sleeve, demons in check, eyes unblinking, unbearably sad, laugh-out-loud funny revelation.

In a series of essays, he recounts his impoverished childhood in 1980s Massachusetts and follows his escape from it through a litany of jobs and identities. AN EVENING with ISAAC FITZGERALD Tuesday, March 7th, 7 pm Online Event (see below) Join us for this very special author event a discussion moderated by Daniel Ford, host of The Writer’s Bone Podcast. Journalist Fitzgerald ( How to Be a Pirate) weaves a raucous mosaic of a rough-and-ready New England rarely seen with a transfixing story of his path to finding himself.

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