What to Read When It’s Time for Sports
Just a “heads up” (as they say in the sports world): this isn’t your average sports list.
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Posts Tagged: Chad Harbach
What to Read When You Want to Go to College
College is a rite of passage for many young people, and it’s also a part of the American Dream for many families. Here is a list of books that tackle those fraught four years.
...moreWhy Writers Love to Hate the MFA
Haven’t gotten enough of the MFA debate? Here’s Cecilia Capuzzi Simon in the New York Times.
...moreLiterature vs. NYC
Independent publishers are producing literature, Chris Fischbach writes in the Virginia Quarterly Review, which is not the same thing as what commercial publishers are printing. Fischbach (a publisher at Coffee House Press) goes on to explain a duality similar to that of Chad Harbach’s MFA vs NYC—if there are two competing writing identities, one is premised […]
...moreHow to Keep Writing That First Novel
The odds that your first novel will ever be published may not be great, but some new writers do manage to get published. NPR Books asks Chad Harbach and Tara Conklin about the process of writing and selling their first novels. About The Art of Fielding, which took Harbach ten years to write, he says: […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Chad Harbach
Chad Harbach sits down to talk about MFA vs NYC and its ongoing debate, co-founding the literary magazine n+1, and the intuitive process behind looking at your own work.
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MFA vs NYC edited by Chad Harbach
Ben Pfeiffer reviews MFA VS NYC, edited by Chad Harbach, today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
...moreNotable NYC: 2/22–2/28
Saturday 2/22: Diane Josefowicz, Justin Boening, Marina Kaganova, and Bianca Stone celebrate the release of the Spring issue of The Saint Ann’s Review. KGB, 7 p.m., free. Chris Chosea will write custom poems. Third Factory, Old American Can Factory, noon, free. Sunday 2/23: Clifford Chase and Rick Whitaker join the Sunday Night fiction series, although […]
...moreThe Art of Being an Undergraduate
Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding is not actually a baseball novel; it’s a college novel, a great college novel.
...moreMoney, Schools and Sex
Thanks to Bloomberg.com, we now know how much Chad Harbach, the “Unemployed Harvard Man,” made on the sale of his novel, and how many copies of The Art of Fielding he’ll have to sell to outsell his co-editors at n+1, Benjamin Kunkel and Keith Gessen. But to get a preview of Chad Harbach’s writing on […]
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