Chad Harbach
Chad Harbach
Chad Harbachis an American writer. An editor at the journal n + 1, he is the author of the 2011 novel The Art of Fielding...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
keys long people
... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.
football play calming
I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.
form novel mediums
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
jobs long challenges
The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.
years
For many years I didn't have health insurance.
alive someday human-condition
The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.
return three stage
There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.
sports team writing
I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.
forgiveness people forgiving
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
writing ideas parent
To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.
sports hate way
In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
sports football book
My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.
sports baseball errors
But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.
fun writing worry
There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.