.IsaacFitzgerald is now a best selling author. We caught up with him about his new book, 'Dirtbag, Massachusetts,' and his journey
, reads: “He’s a ringleader for the circus in the House of Love.” And after reading this book, I think most people would agree that Isaac Fitzgerald is certainly at least that, and then some.manages to figure out — after a series of jet-fueled, drug-addled escapades — how to put together a life out of all the pieces left in the wreckage of his past.
That’s an excellent reading of the book. What I realized — and I’m somebody who came to therapy rather late, just in the last three years — was that when I examined my own life and what I thought I was okay with, or who I thought I was — that life was really about how I acted out in some very weird ways. I thought of myself as someone who wasn’t angry as much as I was this person trying to be openhearted to the world.
That’s a wonderful question, which nobody has ever asked. And something where I’m like, oh, is this something I maybe should talk about in therapy? Because it does seem like something interesting to delve into. I think it all starts with The Catholic Worker and how much joy I found there as a child. We’re talking about the ‘80s. We’re talking about the AIDS crisis and how the systematic homophobia meant that no one was even talking about AIDS.
Your writing has a wonderful consistency to the cadence of the sentences. And then sometimes you do this thing where you double back to something you’ve just said in order to say it differently, or you might repeat it for emphasis. What is your writing process? I bet you were the coolest person to them, because, Isaac, c’mon, you come across as a pretty cool dude.
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