Minisode Twenty-Five: The Campus Novel
Literary Friction
English - October 21, 2021 06:03 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsArts politics comedy interview entrepreneurship business health news culture entrepreneur leadership Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This minisode we are leaning even further into our autumnal and back to school-ish vibe to talk about The Campus Novel, a genre that includes some beloved books and some much less beloved books, but remains enduring nevertheless. Why is there such an appetite for novels about university life? Are these stories mostly wish fulfilment narratives for older men who fear irrelevance? Is it always an elitist set-up? Listen in as we dig into these questions and more.