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Cynan Jones, part 1

Cynan Jones

Cynan Jones speaks with James McConnachie about writing as imaginative remembering, drastic cuts and abandoned manuscripts. Cynan Jones speaks with James McConnachie about writing as a kind of imaginative remembering, the act of taking a novel from ninety to thirty thousand words in a single cut, and why it’s good to have more abandoned books in drawers than published ones on the shelf.


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