Rohan Maitzen
@rohanmaitzen.bsky.social
English prof at King's / Dalhousie (mostly Victorian lit, detective fiction), critic, blogger at 'Novel Readings'. Essays and reviews in the TLS, LRC, Q&Q, CNQ, LARB, etc. It's pronounced "Rowan." She / her. Halifax, NS. http://rohanmaitzen.com
Fred getting into the holiday spirit. 🙂🐈⬛
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Fred getting into the holiday spirit. 🙂🐈⬛
After class today I heard two students walking down the hall talking about how much they like Traddles so I feel good about that. (We haven't even really talked about him, so this is an authentic part of their experience of David Copperfield!) The kids are OK etc.
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
After class today I heard two students walking down the hall talking about how much they like Traddles so I feel good about that. (We haven't even really talked about him, so this is an authentic part of their experience of David Copperfield!) The kids are OK etc.
I realize I may be taking the wrong message away from the Thursday Night Murder Club but it does seem like moving into a retirement community is a good way to make friends and have a lively social life. 😆
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I realize I may be taking the wrong message away from the Thursday Night Murder Club but it does seem like moving into a retirement community is a good way to make friends and have a lively social life. 😆
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Happy Birthday George Eliot!
“All honour & reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women, & children—in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy.”
“All honour & reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women, & children—in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy.”
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Happy Birthday George Eliot!
“All honour & reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women, & children—in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy.”
“All honour & reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women, & children—in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy.”
Is McEwan making a sly dig at Rachel Cusk? 🙃
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Is McEwan making a sly dig at Rachel Cusk? 🙃
She keeps going and sitting under the piano and watching me with her baleful green eyes. I can't tell if she is trying to lure me in to play or scare me off so I won't. 😆🐈⬛
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
She keeps going and sitting under the piano and watching me with her baleful green eyes. I can't tell if she is trying to lure me in to play or scare me off so I won't. 😆🐈⬛
Oh no Outlook & Teams are down so I can't go to my 11:30 meeting. 🙃
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Oh no Outlook & Teams are down so I can't go to my 11:30 meeting. 🙃
Dora is feeling poorly and it is making me sad in spite of myself. Darn you, Dickens, and your absolute genius for pathos!
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Dora is feeling poorly and it is making me sad in spite of myself. Darn you, Dickens, and your absolute genius for pathos!
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November 20th is Universal Children’s Day, a day that promotes the welfare of children. Check out Marjorie Stone’s article from 62.4 where she discusses Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s advocacy for the suffering children of the Victorian working-class.⬇️
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
November 20th is Universal Children’s Day, a day that promotes the welfare of children. Check out Marjorie Stone’s article from 62.4 where she discusses Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s advocacy for the suffering children of the Victorian working-class.⬇️
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Putting aside The Empusium for now. I loved Drive Your Plow so much! but I can't seem to get any traction with this one. Is it because I haven't read Mann?
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Putting aside The Empusium for now. I loved Drive Your Plow so much! but I can't seem to get any traction with this one. Is it because I haven't read Mann?
"Look, now there's a cat on your cat puzzle!" - Fred, thinking she's pretty funny.
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"Look, now there's a cat on your cat puzzle!" - Fred, thinking she's pretty funny.
Who was it on here that I recall raving about Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall? Maybe @ds228.bsky.social ? (Just wondering about picking it up: it looks interesting!)
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Who was it on here that I recall raving about Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall? Maybe @ds228.bsky.social ? (Just wondering about picking it up: it looks interesting!)
I guess Task was good but it was so violent and also I felt like I’d basically seen it before - different details but actually quite formulaic.
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I guess Task was good but it was so violent and also I felt like I’d basically seen it before - different details but actually quite formulaic.
I skimmed to the end of Giles Blunt’s Bad Juliet. It was just ok, for me; I think it would have been way better if he’d modeled it on My Cousin Rachel and really exploited the question of whether her story was true.
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I skimmed to the end of Giles Blunt’s Bad Juliet. It was just ok, for me; I think it would have been way better if he’d modeled it on My Cousin Rachel and really exploited the question of whether her story was true.
Which end is up? 😆❤️😂
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Which end is up? 😆❤️😂
Amazing: a call with an appointment for an ultrasound of my shoulder that I've been waiting for for a year.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Amazing: a call with an appointment for an ultrasound of my shoulder that I've been waiting for for a year.
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The Paris Express is fine, but once again I find myself wishing Emma Donoghue would write fewer novels. Maybe then we'd finally get a really great one from her.
“On We Go”: Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express
Engine 721 doesn’t take it personally. She is made of wood and metal, and her temperament is stoic. Besides, she recognizes something kindred in Mado Pelletier’s iron conviction and uns…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The Paris Express is fine, but once again I find myself wishing Emma Donoghue would write fewer novels. Maybe then we'd finally get a really great one from her.
I was looking at some of my own undergrad essays and it is really amazing how little feedback I got compared to what I have come to think I owe my students. A few corrections here and there, maybe a checkmark or two, a sentence or two at the end, an A- or whatever.
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I was looking at some of my own undergrad essays and it is really amazing how little feedback I got compared to what I have come to think I owe my students. A few corrections here and there, maybe a checkmark or two, a sentence or two at the end, an A- or whatever.
“I want GenAI off my corner.”
GenAI can GTFO
Recently I had the chance to speak about generative AI in front of a mid-sized crowd of colleagues and students, along with five colleagues,...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
“I want GenAI off my corner.”
The Paris Express is fine, but once again I find myself wishing Emma Donoghue would write fewer novels. Maybe then we'd finally get a really great one from her.
“On We Go”: Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express
Engine 721 doesn’t take it personally. She is made of wood and metal, and her temperament is stoic. Besides, she recognizes something kindred in Mado Pelletier’s iron conviction and uns…
rohanmaitzen.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The Paris Express is fine, but once again I find myself wishing Emma Donoghue would write fewer novels. Maybe then we'd finally get a really great one from her.
No, MS Word, I do NOT want you to summarize the document I AM LITERALLY WRITING MYSELF. Why would I need that? God, I hate how intrusive this s--t is. I just want to make it go away and it appears that our institutional version of the software does not have any of the off switches for it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
No, MS Word, I do NOT want you to summarize the document I AM LITERALLY WRITING MYSELF. Why would I need that? God, I hate how intrusive this s--t is. I just want to make it go away and it appears that our institutional version of the software does not have any of the off switches for it.
I just finished Emma Donoghue’s The Paris Express and I cannot believe the ending is such an anticlimax! (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for anyone.) Overall for me the novel was just OK. She’s a very competent writer but I’m surprised this book is a Giller nominee.
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I just finished Emma Donoghue’s The Paris Express and I cannot believe the ending is such an anticlimax! (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for anyone.) Overall for me the novel was just OK. She’s a very competent writer but I’m surprised this book is a Giller nominee.
I went to the gym so I was allowed to have Doritos. I don't make the rules! 😆
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I went to the gym so I was allowed to have Doritos. I don't make the rules! 😆
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Red Poppies
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Red Poppies
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977