Reading Library Presents Virtual Chat With Author Isaac Fitzgerald

READING, MA —The Reading Public Library has announced it will host a virtual interview with Isaac Fitzgerald, author of the memoir "Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional."

The event will take place at 7 p.m. on March 7. Reading's own Daniel Ford, host of the "The Writer's Bone" podcast, will serve as the moderator.

"Dirtbag, Massachusetts," published in 2022, has been called one of the "best memoirs of the year," by Esquire and a "must-read" by TIME. The book also has been highlighted by publications such as Publishers Weekly, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly.

The story, considered a "memoir-in-essays," is about Fitzgerald's life, which has taken him from a childhood in a Boston homeless shelter, to bartending in San Francisco, to smuggling medical supplies into Burma.

Fitzgerald also is the author of the bestselling children's book "How to Be a Pirate" and the co-author of "Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them," and "Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos."

Fitzgerald appears frequently on "The Today Show" and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Esquire and the Guardian.

Registration for the live online event is available online.