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
sports thinking self
I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.
love long matter
It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.
mean people support
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.
young unfolding be-young
Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.
book writing hands
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."
running curves games
Heat radiated off Henry's face. Salty snot ran down his upper lip. A majestic fart propelled him to the top of Section 12, just at the springing of the stadium's curve. He slapped the sign as if high-fiving a teammate. It gave back a game shudder. He was crusing now, darkness be damned, stripping off his sweatshirt and his long underwear top without breaking stride.
basketball soccer baseball
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.
opposites people becoming-an-adult
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.
audience build emphasis hit houses might money novels publishing slowly sort sure three work
You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there's much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.
experience literary reading sort
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
beholden quite
It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.
people
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.
bound history politics racial
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.
earned sorts ways
I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.