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Isaac Fitzgerald

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📚 NYT bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts 🍎 Next up: American Rambler—5/12/26 (@aaknopf) 📺 Talking books on the @todayshow
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My Ma, the Saints, and Me: 'When I Lived on the Farm, I Thought It Was Haunted. Now I Know It Is' (Exclusive)

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By Isaac Fitzgerald
| People Verified
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about prayer. My mother, known to others as Susan but known to me simply as my ma, gave me my first Saint Jude medal when I was 12. It was a helluva choice, considering Saint Jude is the patron saint of lost causes. Calling it a little early, I'd say.
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Why I Love Paperbacks

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By Isaac Fitzgerald, Dirtbag Massachusetts
| Esquire Philippines Verified
You don't own a paperback; you have it for a little while and then it moves on with its life. The best you can do is help it find a good home. Growing up my parents didn’t have much, but what they did have—no matter where we lived—was a library. Hand-me-down furniture, pots, pans, cutlery, and other kitchen miscellany found on our neighbors' stoops would come and go—discarded as easily as they were discovered—every time we moved. And we moved often.
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Why I Love Paperbacks

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By Isaac Fitzgerald
| NewsBreak
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