![]() "It's kind of part and parcel of a real naive innocence on Henry's part," Harbach says. As he wrote out drafts in longhand, Melville's novel found its way into the story.īook Reviews 'Fielding,' A Winning Take On Life And Baseball Over the next 10 years, when he wasn't working on n + 1, the influential literary magazine he co-founded in New York, he wrote. Not long after, Harbach set down his first notes for The Art Of Fielding. I think I'm still trying to get over it a little bit." Then I found, when I did read it, it was really this sort of bold and brash and funny and musical book that totally astounded me. ![]() "All my life, I had been hearing about spoken of in these sort of stern and forbidding ways," Harbach says of his time in college. "Reading Moby-Dick was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me," Harbach tells NPR's Rachel Martin. Henry's fall raises big questions about the things we chase in life - a baseball career, a young love, or a great white whale - and what happens when we fall short. Henry is destined for the big leagues, until a debilitating mental slump lands him on the bench. ![]() Harbach's protagonist, Henry Skrimshander, is a prodigal shortstop at a small, midwestern liberal arts college called Westish University. Or in the same way Friday Night Lights is about football. ![]() How?Ĭhad Harbach's debut novel, The Art Of Fielding, is about baseball in the same way Moby-Dick is about whaling. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Art of Fielding Author Chad Harbach ![]()
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