Campusland is a timely and gleeful skewering of the modern American campus and its tribal culture. But when his position is threatened, he must take measures.Īll paths collide in a riotous climax. As the alpha dog atop Devon’s progressive hierarchy, Red is the most “woke” guy on campus. In the process, she and Eph will find their fates at odds.Īlso in the mix is Red Wheeler, who is in his seventh year at Devon, and is carefully managing his credits to stay longer. When things become socially difficult, Lulu is forced to re-channel her ambition in a most unexpected way – as a militant feminist. She is pleasantly surprised to find some people she can tolerate in the Fellingham Society, a group of self-professed campus monarchists. Her singular ambition is to be a prominent socialite – an “It Girl.” While most would kill for a place at Devon, to her college is a dreary impediment. A few weeks ago I had just put the finishing touches on my new novel, Nevergreen, a high-spirited, richly imagined campus satire that is both smart and hilarious (IMHO), when I learned that debut novelist Scott Johnston was a week away from publishing a campus satire called Campusland that Kirkus Reviews described in the words I.

Lulu Harris is an entitled freshman-er, firstyear-from Manhattan. His beloved Devon, though, has become a place of warring tribes, and there are landmines waiting for Eph that he is unequipped to see. He may look and sound privileged, but Eph is right out of gun-rack, Bible-thumping rural Alabama. A tumultuous and often hilarious first novel about one year of insanity at the Ivy-like Devon University, a blissful bubble of elite students and the adults at their mercy.Įph Russell is an English professor up for tenure.

Campusland by scott johnston