Glenn Kurtz

Glenn Kurtz
Born	Roslyn, New York
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Memoir, creative nonfiction
Subject	Classical music, the guitar
Notable works	Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music (2007)
Website
glennkurtz.com

Glenn Kurtz is an American writer and the author of Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music (Knopf, 2007; Vintage paperback, 2008).[1]

Biography

Kurtz is a graduate of the New England Conservatory-Tufts University double degree program. He has a PhD from Stanford University in German Studies and Comparative Literature.[1] 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.[2]

Practicing

Practicing has been reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, and in other publications, and on NPR.[3][4]

Three Minutes in Poland

In 2009, Kurtz found a home video shot by his family that included three minutes of footage in Nasielsk, Poland, shot in 1938. He set out to restore the film and find the people in it. The book based on this journey is titled Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).[5] The film Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2022), directed by Bianca Stigter, is based on the book.[6]

References

1. Colin, Chris (June 18, 2007). "ON THE JOB: How To Fail Successfully: When to give up on our ambitions? Glenn Kurtz learned the answer the hard way". SFGate. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
2. Glenn Kurtz. "Glenn Kurtz on Glenn Kurtz". Archived from the original on 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2007-06-10.
3. Itzkoff, Dave (October 28, 2007). "Music Chronicle". New York Times Sunday Book Review. Archived from the original on 2024-01-25. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
4. "Weekend Edition with Scott Simon". National Public Radio. Archived from the original on 2008-04-12. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
5. "Family Film Offers Glimpse Of 'Three Minutes In Poland' Before Holocaust". Npr.org. Archived from the original on 28 October 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
6. Nicholson, Rebecca (24 January 2023). "Three Minutes: A Lengthening review – Helena Bonham Carter is profoundly poetic in an astounding documentary". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 January 2023.

External links

• Living with Music: A Playlist by Glenn Kurtz Archived 2008-09-06 at the Wayback Machine