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There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.
Chad Harbach
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American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.
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It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.
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Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
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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.
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I've been a Brewers fan since birth.
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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.
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The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
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Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
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Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
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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.
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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.
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