historical currents that shaped Czapski and the world this century inherited from the previous. North American rights: New York Review of Books. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in France (Editions Noir sur Blanc) and Poland (Noir sur Blanc) Film rights: Regal Hoffmann PHILIP KENNICOTT Philip Kennicott is the chief selected for the volume Best Art and Architecture critic of American Essays 2015. In the Washington Post. 2006 Kennicott was an Emmy Kennicott won the 2013 Award nominee for a web Pulitzer Prize for Criticism journal about democracy and and has twice been a Pulitzer oil money in Azerbaijan. Prize finalist before: in 2012, Kennicott has served as an as a runner-up for the editor of several classical Criticism prize, and in 2000, music magazines including as a finalist for the Pulitzer Musical America and Chamber Prize for Editorial Writing. In Music Magazine, as a 2015, he was a National columnist for Gramophone, Magazine Award finalist for and as a contributing editor at a piece also the New Republic. “Smuggler,” A Memoir THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS – (W.W. Norton, Winter 2019) When Philip Kennicott’s mother refused to die Kennicott, the Pulitzer gracefully and took a life of art and architecture resentment and to the critic for the Washington Post grave with her, there was and an accomplished but nowhere for him to turn for ultimately frustrated amateur comfort. But there was the pianist, became obsessed with music of Johann Sebastian the Goldbergs, their intricate Bach, in particular his structure, luminous yet celebrated Goldberg unforgiving clarity, and the Variations, which offered not many technical, intellectual, comfort but at least the hope and emotional challenges they of there being something pose for anybody trying to beyond the existential void. master them.
historical currents that shaped Czapski and the world this century inherited from the previous. North American rights: New York Review of Books. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in France (Editions Noir sur Blanc) and Poland (Noir sur Blanc) Film rights: Regal Hoffmann PHILIP KENNICOTT Philip Kennicott is the chief Art and Architecture critic of the Washington Post. Kennicott won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and has twice been a Pulitzer Prize finalist before: in 2012, as a runner-up for the Criticism prize, and in 2000, as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. In 2015, he was a National Magazine Award finalist for “Smuggler,” a piece also selected for the volume Best American Essays 2015. In 2006 Kennicott was an Emmy Award nominee for a web journal about democracy and oil money in Azerbaijan. Kennicott has served as an editor of several classical music magazines including Musical America and Chamber Music Magazine, as a columnist for Gramophone, and as a contributing editor at the New Republic. THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS – A Memoir (W.W. Norton, Winter 2019) When Philip Kennicott’s mother refused to die gracefully and took a life of resentment and to the grave with her, there was nowhere for him to turn for comfort. But there was the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, in particular his celebrated Goldberg Variations, which offered not comfort but at least the hope of there being something beyond the existential void. Kennicott, the Pulitzer art and architecture critic for the Washington Post and an accomplished but ultimately frustrated amateur pianist, became obsessed with the Goldbergs, their intricate structure, luminous yet unforgiving clarity, and the many technical, intellectual, and emotional challenges they pose for anybody trying to master them.
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