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
athlete artist people
I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.
book thinking people
If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking leaks into yours. So whatever changes MFAs have made to the culture, it's to the culture as a whole. It can't be pinned down to individual books in a way that some people would like to do.
doors feet people
Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not enough to get you where you need to be.
real people world
Tall people have a real advantage in the world.
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.
forgiveness people forgiving
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
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.
opposites people becoming-an-adult
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.
people
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.
art trying want
Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.
notebook pages way
Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way.
book writing thinking
The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.
men telescopes want
You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.
sports stuff fans
It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.