Discovering the Joy of Writing through Volunteering

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The speaker shares their journey of stumbling upon a storytelling and bookmaking workshop in San Francisco, leading to their discovery of a volunteer organization that supports kids' writing skills. They discuss how this experience changed their perspective on writing as a craft and led them to become the director of publicity at McSweeney's.

Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts, a coming of age memoir recounting his early years in Boston, an ongoing search for forgiveness, and a more expansive definition of family and self.