BOOKS FOR THE 1%: NOVEL
THE ART OF FIELDING | CHAD HARBACH | LITTLE, BROWN | $25 | While it sometimes seems as though a preponderance of literary fiction writers are the offspring of the one percent, only a handful have become affluent through their craft. Chad Harbach is one of the select - the n + 1 editor and Harvard graduate earned at least $600,000 last year from the advance for The Art of Fielding, his first novel. What's more, through its baseball-prodigy protagonist's dalliance with the major leagues, the novel tackles something with which we are all familiar: the drama inherent in entering a dramatically higher income bracket.
