Rohan Maitzen

@rmaitzen
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English prof, critic, blogger. Mostly reading and writing about Victorian literature, detective fiction, contemporary fiction. Essays and reviews in the TLS, Q&Q, LARB, CNQ, etc. It's pronounced "Rowan." She / her. Halifax, NS
Websitehttp://rohanmaitzen.com
Twitter@RohanMaitzen
Bloghttps://rohanmaitzen.com/novelreadings/
A server is being started "for readers, writers, thinkers, artists, academics, enthusiasts or anyone who just wants to follow the conversation" - this might be a good way for some of us to find a more humanities-centered local timeline. https://zirk.us/about
We can't let the #histodons keep showing us up, lit folks! Can we rally around #LitStudies as our hashtag, at least while we're still settling in?

After spending a few days scoping out Mastodon, it's time for a brief #introduction. While I work in DC journalism, I am here to discuss #movies, #music, #genealogy, and, especially, #books. My taste in fiction often gravitates toward the darkly humorous or strange, but I'm genre agnostic. Most of my nonfiction reading is #history, often about the early 20th century in my home state of #Montana.

I plan to use this differently than I've used Twitter, but I don't know exactly what that means.

"For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief."

GE, Middlemarch (Chapter 53)

I haven't read a Jonathan Franzen novel since The Corrections but the Middlemarch connection for Crossroads has had me curious for a while so I think it's up next. (Maybe JF isn't hated here the way he is on the bird site!) #amreading
I'm actually having a very twitter-like experience here so far, which perhaps says as much about how I used / set up twitter as anything else. The biggest difference is meeting new people, which is all good. I'm hoping to find more #BookPeople - let me know if there are better hashtags for turning them (you) up! 📚
For most of the day I couldn’t refresh my feeds but things seem smoother now so I thought I’d add a picture of one of my favorite spots as another kind of #introduction. This is in Point Pleasant Park here in #HalifaxNS
I finally finished Shrines of Gaiety and … it’s just not very good. It’s the first of her novels I’ve ever found a slog. The narrative is all in bits and pieces and none of the characters really comes to life. And the ending reads like it’s just transcribed directly from her notes.
So far so mysterious! The posts and replies seem familiar enough but the disaggregating is still baffling - in practice, not so much in theory. Anyway, where are the #Victorianists hanging out? And more #Book people?