{"id":1696,"date":"2011-05-24T22:22:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T03:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2011-05-25T08:01:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T13:01:31","slug":"arthur-phillips-the-tragedy-of-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/arthur-phillips-the-tragedy-of-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Phillips – The Tragedy of Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arthur<\/a><\/p>\n

I went to see Arthur Phillips<\/a> give a talk on his latest book, “The Tragedy of Arthur<\/a>“, tonight at Politics and Prose Bookstore<\/a> in DC. As usual, he gave a very engaging talk\/reading of the book. I’ve been to a few of his talks now (he’s one of my favorite authors), all at Politics and Prose: for “The Song is You<\/a>” , “Angelica<\/a>“, and “The Egyptologist<\/a>“. <\/p>\n

See previous posts: Arthur Phillips Reads \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Song is You\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/a> and Walter Isaacson, Arthur Phillips recent events<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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His latest book (The Tragedy of Arthur<\/a>) is different: the premise is that this is a memoir of his (actual) life with his (con-artist) father and sister. He has written the Introduction to a newly discovered Shakespeare play, “The Tragedy of Arthur” (discovered<\/em> by his father, a convicted forger – see where this is leading?). I was really drawn into this novel (memoir). Ok, it’s not a real memoir, but it reads like one. Just go with it. I haven’t read the play at the end yet, but Mr. Phillips mentioned it has been staged by a theater company in NY for the audio book. That would be interesting!<\/p>\n

At one point tonight Mr. Phillips asked if anyone in the audience was a “real” Shakespearean actor and would like to read one of the soliloquies. Turns out someone was there who was with the Shakespeare Theater Company<\/a>, and he came up to read. Not sure if that was a coincidence. :)<\/p>\n

\"Arthur<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nOne different thing about tonight is that I asked Mr. Phillips to sign my “ebook” version – i.e. my iPad. He smiled and did so, though he hesitated to “mess up Machu Picchu” (I have a Gelaskin<\/a> on my iPad, from a photo I took on my honeymoon at Machu Picchu). Turns out that signing ebooks is a real<\/a> possibility now, though it hasn’t really hit the mainstream yet. Soon? Hopefully it can be done in realtime, as part of the fun of getting a book signed is meeting the author. A “virtual” signing isn’t the same thing. We’ll see. For now I plan on adding more signatures to the back of my iPad. When the back is filled I’ll come up with something…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to see Arthur Phillips give a talk on his latest book, “The Tragedy of Arthur“, tonight at Politics and Prose Bookstore in DC. As usual, he gave a very engaging talk\/reading of the book. I’ve been to a few of his talks now (he’s one of my favorite authors), all at Politics and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}