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 →
In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
Tall people have a real advantage in the world.
To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph... →
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the... →
Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a... →
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people... →
I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in... →
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... →
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.... →