The Art of Fielding Resources

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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