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. "This high-spirited, richly imagined, and brave novel is a delight to read.
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