{"id":716,"date":"2011-09-19T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=716"},"modified":"2011-09-18T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T18:27:58","slug":"the-tea-and-muffins-school-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/the-tea-and-muffins-school-of-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tea and Muffins School of Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>IF: Would you say there are any basic differences between the English and the American thriller?<br \/>\nRC: Oh yes. An American thriller is much faster paced.<br \/>\nIF: We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got into a rather \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctea and muffins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 school of writing here, I think. Policemen are much too nice and always drinking cups of tea, and inspectors puff away at pipes and the whole thing goes on in a rather sort of quiet atmosphere in some little village somewhere in England. Of course, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got the private-eye tradition which we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t got so much over here because our private detectives are on the whole just ordinary people who go and follow married couples around and try to catch them out.<br \/>\nRC: Same as they are in America . . .<br \/>\nIF: Yes, but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re written up to be much more.<br \/>\nRC: A private eye is a catalyst, a man who resolves the situation. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist in real life. Unless you can make him seem real. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make any money either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/13680683\">Conversation between Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler, 1958<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IF: Would you say there are any basic differences between the English and the American thriller? RC: Oh yes. An American thriller is much faster paced. IF: We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got into a rather \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctea and muffins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 school of writing here, I think. Policemen are much too nice and always drinking cups of tea, and inspectors puff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2544],"tags":[590,98,589,588],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-bond","tag-journalism","tag-raymond-chandler","tag-thrillers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->