About
I’m a writer, animator, and knitter. I grew up in Oregon and now live in London.
I’m the author of two novels: The Disassembly of Doreen Durand and most recently George Falls Through Time. Please order both from your favorite bookstore.
My agent is Hattie Grünewald.
Like many, I also have a Substack. You can expect an email from me once every… year? Let’s say a year and then you can be happily surprised when it’s slightly more than once a year.
In 2022 I won an honorable mention in the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest for a short story.
I knit on the internet when I’m bored. My YouTube channel is called RJKnits.
Here’s some of my favorite:
ALWAYS
Anna Karenina, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Folded Leaf, Salvage the Bones, The Magic Mountain
RECENTLY
Confessions of a Mask, Disgrace, The Vet’s Daughter, In The Heart Of The Heart Of The Country, A Distant Mirror, The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion, Rejection, The Emperor of All Maladies, The Sluts, Wolf Solent, Septology, My Loose Thread, Margery Kempe, The City and its Uncertain Walls, The Palm House
AUTHORS
William Maxwell, Haruki Murakami, Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, William H. Gass, Yukio Mishima, Joy Williams, Iris Murdoch
ALWAYS
I Heart Huckabees, Akira, Two Days, One Night; Lost in Translation; God’s Own Country; Nashville; Spirited Away
Attack on Titan, Absolutely Fabulous, Watchmen, Are You Being Served?, Masterchef, Please Like Me, Happy Valley, Neon Genesis Evangelion
RECENTLY
The Boy and the Heron, The Card Counter, Godzilla Minus One, The Beast, Challengers, Evil Does Not Exist, Toni Erdmann, Prometheus, Anora, Broadcast News, 28 Years Later, Mulholland Drive, The Neon Bible, Sirāt
The Curse, The Traitors, Veep, The White Lotus, Monster, Girls
Sufjan Stevens, Lana Del Rey, Beyoncé, Cat Power, Fiona Apple, Ben Folds, Kacey Musgraves, Mahmood, Lontalius, Addison Rae, FKA twigs, Tove Lo, Cindy Lee, Ryan Beatty
