30 July 2018
Last week, the literary lawsuit against Chad Harbach's 2011 bestseller, The Art of Fielding, was dismissed. This week, Charles Green-the author of the unpublished novel Bucky's 9th that Green believes Harbach mined for plot points and other elements-said he is going to appeal. I've followed the case since it cropped up in 2017 because I've been writing a novel about baseball and because (why lie?) I enjoy literary gossip. But also because I've been wondering when someone was going to mention the thing that instantly popped into my mind: The Simpsons did it.