Join writer Isaac Fitzgerald in conversation with artist Amanda Lovelee as they discuss Fitzgerald’s American Rambler and Lovelee’s newly opened MASS MoCA exhibition Homecoming

“An immersive walk through our country’s forgotten history. Fitzgerald carves out a trail through his own past as he explores the landscapes and lives that shaped a nation” –Tara Westover, author of Educated

In conjunction with MASS MoCA’s newest immersive outdoor exhibition Homecoming, join us and artist Amanda Lovelee as we celebrate the return of The New York Times best-selling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Isaac Fitzgerald.

As a child, Isaac Fitzgerald was always captivated by Johnny Appleseed, drawn by family ties to the legend, his father’s larger-than-life stories, and a shared restlessness to leave home and discover what lies beyond. In American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed (Knopf), he sets out, walking from central Massachusetts to Indiana on a year-long journey to follow the path of the legendary Johnny Appleseed, turning a childhood fascination into a profound reckoning of loss and grief, ritual and faith, grimy gas station bathrooms and scenic apple-picking. A moving blend of memoir, history, and travelogue, American Rambler is at once an ode to the American heartland, an antidote to the breakneck pace of modern life, and an epic journey that both takes him far from home and brings him closer to it.

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Isaac Fitzgerald is The New York Times best-selling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts and 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. He appears frequently on The Today Show, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, The Guardian, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among others. He lives with his wife and their two dogs on the North Fork of Long Island.