Play It Again

by Alan Rusbridger

About the book

Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible by Alan Rusbridger (2013) is a memoir. Rusbridger, then editor of The Guardian, sets himself the goal of learning to play Chopin’s fiendishly difficult first Ballade in a year of just twenty minutes’ daily practice, all while running a newspaper through the WikiLeaks and phone-hacking stories. The book interleaves the two struggles, making it both a meditation on amateur musicianship and a diary of a dramatic year in journalism.