Colum McCann

Isaac Fitzgerald bio ↓ · November 20th, 2009 · filed under books

“Every novel is a failure. You can never achieve what you truly want to achieve. That thing you dreamt on the riverbank is never the thing you achieve when you are back at the writing table.”

–From “The Rumpus Interview with Colum McCann,” who won the National Book Award for Fiction this week for his novel, Let the Great World Spin. You can read our interview with McCann, which we ran back in June, here.

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Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. He has also written for The Bold Italic, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Follow him on Twitter. More from this author →

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