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Chad Harbach

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. You know, now, there’s much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.

– Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach

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.

– Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach

Reading ‘Moby-Dick’ was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

– Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can’t get anywhere else.

– Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

– Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach

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 words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

– Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach

I’ve been a Brewers fan since birth.

– Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach

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 here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.

– Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

– Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach

It’s quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.

– Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach

There’s certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

– Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

– Chad Harbach

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