Current Obsession: New York’s blogger-pianist Jeremy Denk

Jeremy Denk has recorded three well-received solo albums, toured with classical violin superstar Joshua Bell and played with many of the great orchestras in many of the great halls. But he’s best known as a blogger. Think Denk, which started life as a humble Blogspot site, details the travails of a classical pianist—hours lost to practicing, bouts of self-doubt, wonderfully geeky close reads of the music he’s practicing—in a mode that’s best described as indulgent self-parody.