Glenn Kurtz
Encyclopedia
Glenn Kurtz is a writer and the author of Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music (Knopf, 2007; Vintage paperback, 2008). He lives in New York City
, where he is currently working on a novel
.
His writing has been published in ZYZZYVA, Artweek, Tema Celeste, and elsewhere, and he has taught at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and California College of the Arts.
Practicing has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
, the New York Times, and in other publications, and on radio broadcasts nationally (NPR
).
New York City
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, where he is currently working on a novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
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Biography
Glenn Kurtz is a graduate of the New England Conservatory-Tufts University double degree program. He also holds a PhD from Stanford University in German Studies and Comparative Literature.His writing has been published in ZYZZYVA, Artweek, Tema Celeste, and elsewhere, and he has taught at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and California College of the Arts.
Practicing
Glenn Kurtz writes:
Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music is a book about the dream of becoming an artist. Drawn from my experiences as a child performer and concert classical guitarist, Practicing tells the story of my youthful ambition to achieve musical artistry, the collapse of that ambition in my twenties, and my surprising return to music later in life. As a child and young adult, I practiced full of passion and expectation, certain I could change peoples’ lives with music. In my late twenties, despairing of a viable career as a classical guitarist, I quit in bitterness. For ten years, I couldn’t bear to touch the instrument. Now, in my forties, a lover of music chastened in my goals, I’ve returned to practicing to understand what went wrong, to learn to do it better.
Practicing has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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, the New York Times, and in other publications, and on radio broadcasts nationally (NPR
NPR
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).