Brendan Fitzgerald’s writing has appeared at Longreads, Literary Hub, and The Morning News, where he wrote the “Press Pause” column. From 2016 through 2022, he was senior editor of Columbia Journalism Review. He received his MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Montana, where he was a Bertha Morton Scholar, co-curator of the Second Wind Reading Series, and online content editor for CutBank. He spent six years as an editor at C-VILLE Weekly in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the host of the Dominion City Book Club.
CONTACT: fitzheraldtribune [at] gmail
SELECT FEATURES & ESSAYS
“Where Darkness Surrounds Violence,” Columbia Journalism Review
“The daily grotesque,” a profile of an artist who drew the Trump news cycle for four-and-a-half years, Columbia Journalism Review
“The Transfiguration of Paul Curreri,” Longreads
“Covering immigration in the time of Trump,” Columbia Journalism Review (with Migratory Notes)
“Intimidation is a form of violence,” Columbia Journalism Review
“Charlottesville One Year Later,” Columbia Journalism Review
“What One Journalist Learned by Vicariously Sitting in on David Carr’s Master Class,” The Morning News
“Shadow and smoke: Charles Wright, and what we let go,” Montana Public Radio
“The Combination Lock Test,” The Morning News
“Here There Be Monsters: A professor teaches skepticism by creating internet hoaxes,” The Morning News
REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
“Krakauer’s Missoula and the scrutiny of reporters who cover rape,” Columbia Journalism Review
“What does ‘longform’ journalism really mean? Love and Ruin, terminology, and the anxiety of limits,” Literary Hub
“Serial, Mystery Show, and why listeners want to be in on the action,” Columbia Journalism Review
“Susan Orlean on archiving her life, nearly quitting books, and not keeping up with her subjects,” Columbia Journalism Review
“Rita Dove on what poetry might grant unsuspecting news readers,” Columbia Journalism Review
“Claire Vaye Watkins: ‘You don’t have to do much to be transgressive, and that’s a problem,'” The Believer Logger
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Bylines for Columbia Journalism Review
“Press Pause” columns for The Morning News
Image: 1875 map of Danbury, Connecticut, via Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
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