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 novel 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. See /listener for privacy information."This high-spirited, richly imagined, and brave novel is a delight to read. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech
Twitter: you looking to find your purpose, navigate transition or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today.Ĭheck out our Facebook Page or the Men's community.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Did you enjoy the podcast? If so please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. He lives in Bedford, New York with his wife and three children. Before Yale, Johnston went to the Buckley School in New York and to boarding school at Milton Academy. It has gone to sell over a million copies. As an undergraduate, he was involved in campus fraternity and social life and self-published The Complete Book of Beer Drinking Games just after graduation. He’s a Yale graduate who has taught classes there. Scott Johnston has worked in finance for 35 years.
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