Chad Harbach is an American writer. An editor at the journal n + 1, he is the author of the 2011 novel The Art of Fielding. Read full biography of Chad Harbach →
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... →
I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you... →
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.
I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.
It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
For many years I didn't have health insurance.
I've been a Brewers fan since birth.
I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.