How many debut novels get sold to a publisher for reportedly almost $700,000, stay on the bestseller list for weeks, receive lengthy blurbs from Jonathan Franzen and James Patterson, are the subject of a lengthy Vanity Fair piece describing how the book got written, have its film rights optioned to HBO, and on and on and on?
I’d love to signal independent-mindedness by saying Chad Harbach’s Art of Fielding isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But alas, I enjoyed the book…
