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Episode 97: Chad Harbach

My interview with Chad Harbach discussing his latest, The Brightness. Chad and I discussed (1) the pressures and uncertainties for a writer who takes a decade or more between books; (2) how the lit journal landscape has changed since founding n+1 over 20 years ago, and (3) the influence of the gra…

Ep 500: Chad Harbach

On this week’s episode, Chad Harbach joins us to discuss The Brightness (Little, Brown, Oct. 27), the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his sensational debut novel, 2011’s The Art of Fielding. In a starred review, Kirkus calls The Brightness—which returns readers to fictional Westish, Wisconsin, fou…

Chad Harbach & The Art of Finding the Flow

Celebrated author Chad Harbach shares about his long journey to write his award-winning novel The Art of Fielding and its newly released follow-up The Brightness. He discusses what drew him back to the world of Westish College, the character from both books that he identifies with the most, and the…

Chad Harbach, The Brightness

Brett sits down with Chad Harbach to discuss his sophomore novel, 'The Brightness'. They talk revisiting characters from, 'The Art Of Fielding' and why go back, writing a book about female friendship and feminism, a favorite and hardest character to write, and the status of the adaption of his firs…

Ep. 16: Chad Harbach on the art of following up (LIVE!)

Writing Forward welcomes Racine native Chad Harbach, author of the bestselling novel "The Art of Fielding" and its long-awaited follow-up, "The Brightness." In this episode, recorded live at the Wisconsin Book Festival, Chad talks about returning to the world of Westish College after fifteen years,…

A follow-up 15 years in the making: Chad Harbach on 'The Brightness'

It’s been 15 years since Chad Harbach published The Art of Fielding, a book about a star college baseball player at a fictional Wisconsin liberal arts college. His new book The Brightness isn’t quite a sequel, but a follow-up that returns to that same world. The novel focuses on a group of young wo…

The Brightness with Chad Harbach (Little, Brown and Co., 2026)

From the bestselling author of literary sensation The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change. Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief—The Brightne…

The Brightness with Chad Harbach (Little, Brown and Co., 2026)

From the bestselling author of literary sensation The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change. Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief—The Brightne…

The Brightness with Chad Harbach (Little, Brown and Co., 2026)

From the bestselling author of literary sensation The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change. Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief—The Brightne…

Chad Harbach and the Art of Female Perspective

Chad Harbach hasn’t published a new novel in 15 years…until now. We could not be more excited, because his novel The Art of Fielding was one of our all time favorites. This time he brings us back to the campus of Westish College for The Brightness, a novel about female friendships, the complexities…