I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I … - Chad Harbach

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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

Chad Harbach

I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a question of "this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn't. " I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It's totally impossible.

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People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

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Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

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Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.

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To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

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