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.
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.
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.
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.
book topics strive
Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.
running reality essence
Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.
real book thinking
I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a question of "this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn't." I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It's totally impossible.
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.