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
forgiveness people forgiving
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
writing two three
For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.
new-york nice ambition
A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense.
You are skilled. I exhort you.
girl school striving-to-be-the-best
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 society in which that were the case.
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.
sports hate way
In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
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.
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.
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."
opposites people becoming-an-adult
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.
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.
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.