5/24/2023 0 Comments Campusland book![]() ![]() ![]() The students there are “earnest” and “likable” by comparison with the Ivy League, there is “less entitlement, and no one” - blessedly - “was confused about what pronouns or which bathrooms to use.” In other words, this is a place where real learning can happen, and where Eph can educate his students about the realist tradition in American literature, beginning with Mark Twain, whose characters, Russell explains to a group of well-mannered students, In the meantime, Russell has taken a part-time teaching job at a university in Alabama. The main character, Eph Russell, a middling, well-meaning English professor, has taken a year-long leave of absence from Devon University (a fictionalized Yale), where he was falsely accused of sexual assault by a freshman, put through a bogus Title IX trial, and watched as his beloved Huckleberry Finn was trashed by campus social justice warriors in a staged protest. It does not arrive until the very end, and it goes like this. ![]() FROM THE BEGINNING of Scott Johnston’s new novel, Campusland, we know that a mention of Tom Wolfe is forthcoming. ![]()
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