![]() He may look and sound privileged, but Eph is right out of gun-rack, Bible-thumping rural Alabama. Eph Russell is an English professor up for tenure. * A description of the problem Scott saw on campuses and why it was great material to write about.* The effect of wealth in the collegiate process both at the endowment and the student level. 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. In the second part, we probed some ground around Campusland's subject matter: the new environment of the college campus and what that means today. ![]() ![]() Finally, we spent some time reviewing the typical timetable and scheduling that goes into the production and launch of a book. Reviewed by Matthew Stewart Would the president of an elite university cave in to the demands of campus militants to the tune of 50 million in order to buy temporary peace In. We also dove into the business of being an author and the typical hurdles that new authors face. In the first part of the podcast, we talked about the incident at his alma mater that got him to write his newest book. ![]() It made it to #15 on the New York Times best seller list and #1 in the humorous books section. But Johnston does owe him: Campusland is in many ways an update of Wolfe’s 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, a satire of campus life that was, at once, creepy and cruel enough to tank Wolfe’s. ![]() This is Scott's second appearance on WA, but the first where Scott discusses his book. In the latest episode of the Wealth Actually podcast, we get to sit down with Scott Johnston the author of Campusland. ![]()
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