Johnson sets his story at fictional northeastern Devon University, presented as one of the very elite private universities in the country, a rival to Harvard. It is not clear that it takes courage to espouse right-wing opinions in the United States of 2019, but Johnson clearly means to be the man who reveals the dark truths that universities - at least the elite universities outside the South-hope you won't discover. It credits Johnson as the author brave enough to publish the truth about American higher education today. The front cover of this new college novel blazons a blurb from Kirkus Reviews calling it not just "smart and hilarious" but "high-spirited, richly imagined, and brave". And what to do with Martika Malik-Adams? Isn’t her giant salary as vice-president of Diversity & Inclusion enough?Īll paths converge as privileged, marginalized, and radical students form identity alliances, sacrifice education for outrage, and push varied agendas of political correctness that drags every free thought of higher learning into the lower depths of an entitled underclass.Scott Johnson, Campusland (St. Presiding over this ferment is Milton Strauss, Devon’s feckless president, who spends his days managing perpetually aggrieved students, scheming administrators, jealous professors, billionaire donors, and bumptious frat boys. For Lulu to claw her way back to the top, she’ll build a pyre and roast anyone in her way. Shedding her designer clothes, she puts on flannel and a brand-new persona: campus victim.
But when his position is challenged, Red is forced to take measures.īefore first term is halfway finished, Lulu bungles her social cache with her clubbable upperclass peers, and is forced to reinvent herself. In his seventh year at Devon, Red Wheeler is the alpha dog on top of Devon’s progressive hierarchy, the most woke guy on campus. If Eph could just get tenure, he could stay forever, but there are landmines everywhere. All day to think and read and linger over a Welsh rarebit at The Faculty Club, not to mention teach English 240 where he gets to discuss all his 19th-century favorites, like Mark Twain. To Eph Russell, who looks and sounds like an avatar of privilege (shh! - he’s anything but) Devon is heaven. If she’s fabulous and no one sees it, what’s the point? To Lulu Harris - It Girl-in-the-Making - her first year at the ultra-competitive Ivy-like Devon University is a dreary impediment. Her closet isn’t big enough for two weeks’-worth of outfits, much less her new Rag & Bone for fall. A wickedly delightful audiobook that may remind you of Tom Wolfe and David Lodge. Joyous, fast and funny, Scott Johnston’s Campusland is a satiric howl at today’s elite educational institutions - from safe spaces to tribal infighting to the sheer sanctimony.
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