We are thrilled to be welcoming Isaac Fitzgerald to Brighton! Isaac will be in conversation with Amanda Uhle, a fellow author turned friend. This is absolutely guaranteed to be a great evening. Come for all the stories and leave with a full heart (and a signed book!)
Registration is required for this free event. Visit the event home page on our website to register and to pre-purchase your books for pick up at the event.
We are typically closed on Mondays - doors will open at 5:30PM for this event.
ISAAC FITZGERALD is the New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts (winner of the New England Book Award). He is also the author of the bestselling children’s book How to Be a Pirate as well as the co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (winner of an IACP Award). He appears frequently on The Today Show, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, The Guardian, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and numerous other publications. He lives with his wife and their two dogs on the North Fork of Long Island.
AMANDA UHLE writes about culture, politics, and civil rights for The Washington Post, POLITICO, The Boston Globe, and Newsweek. Uhle is coeditor of the I, Witness series of first-person stories by youth activists, former director of the 826michigan youth writing and tutoring program, and cofounder, with Dave Eggers, of the International Congress of Youth Voices. Their work with youth writing organizations worldwide is documented in Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire. Uhle is the publisher and executive director of McSweeney’s, an independent nonprofit publisher of distinctive books and magazines.