ISAAC
FITZGERALD

Photo credit: John Midgley

Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney’s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News’ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award). He is the author of three books forthcoming from Bloomsbury: a YA novel, a picture book, and an essay collection titled Dirtbag, Massachusetts. He uses Twitter.

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SELECTED ESSAYS:

“How I Found A Steady Soundtrack For An Unsteady Life”
“The True Story Of My Teenage Dirtbag Fight Club”
“Confessions Of A Former Former Fat Kid”
“Why I Stopped Running From New York”
“High For The Holidays”