The Art of Fielding Resources

Websites

Chad + 1

Chad Harbach co-edits the n+1 literary magazine (with more than one other person). Chances are if you liked The Art of Fielding, you'll find something similar in Harbach's magazine.

Seventh-Inning Stretch

Harbach's publisher seems to go with a less-is-more approach to promote the book on their website.

Shine a (Affen)light

How many books that are geared toward people older than 16 have dedicated fan sites? We can't think of very many. But Art of Fielding is one, with this thorough, fan-run site, updated even into 2015, four years after the book's initial publication.

Movie or TV Productons

Baseball on Sundance

If you never thought you'd see baseball on a network other than primetime broadcast or ESPN, the Sundance channel hopes to prove you wrong with their Art of Fielding TV series allegedly in the works, although still uncast as of June 2014.

Articles and Interviews

Let the Wild Rumpus Start

In this interview with The Rumpus, Harbach talks about a rivalry between MFA writers and NYC writers, and discusses his decade-long writing process for The Art of Fielding.

Play Ball

While The Art of Fielding allegedly isn't just a baseball novel, GQ's interview with Harbach opens with a little sports chat.

The Longest Game

Harbach says he didn't work on any other novels in the nine years he took to write The Art of Fielding, making this the longest baseball game ever.

Video

Good Game, Mate!

Chad Harbach says g'day mate (not literally) at the Sydney Writers' Festival.

Harbach's Habits

No, Harbach isn't the slowest writer ever. He didn't literally take ten years to write this book, but he wrote it on and off over the course of a decade.

The Art of the Book Festival

Nashville isn't all country music. It has time for authors, too.

Audio

The (Gay) Marriage of Figaro

Affenlight rocks out to this sweet Mozart classic while he's driving and thinking of Owen.

The Variety of Life

Harbach talks about working in his love for baseball and Moby Dick (probably not at the same time like Owen) into one big book.

Baseball in the Lifeblood

With minimal chanting, Harbach discusses the mantras he wrote for The Art of Fielding within The Art of Fielding.

Images

Cheese Ball

Wisconsin is describe as a "baseball glove" (1.2) with Westish College being in "the crook of the baseball glove" (1.2), putting it near Green Bay.

World Series

This foreign cover for The Art of Fielding looks a little more exciting than the simple U.S. design.