Chad Harbach's Long-Awaited Second Novel Returns to Campus
Fifteen years after "The Art of Fielding" made him a literary sensation, Chad Harbach is publishing a new novel set on the same college campus, this time into a changed literary landscape.
Chad Harbach, whose 2011 debut "The Art of Fielding" became one of the defining literary successes of its decade, is returning with a new novel titled "The Brightness," according to The New York Times. The book is set on the same campus as his first, but the newspaper notes that it arrives into a very different literary moment than the one that greeted its predecessor.
"The Art of Fielding," a campus novel centered on baseball, ambition and friendship, was widely reviewed and became a bestseller, establishing Harbach as one of the notable American novelists of his generation. Since then, he has published little fiction, and "The Brightness" has been long anticipated by readers who followed his debut.
The New York Times frames the new book's arrival as a kind of return to familiar terrain under changed conditions, though the available material does not specify what has shifted in the publishing world since 2011, nor does it detail the plot, length or release date of "The Brightness." Further particulars were not included in the source report.
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