The Campus Novel: Why Is It So Bad & Hated

my takeaway here: campus novels are less bad and hated when characters are regularly being killed off

Nobody gets killed off in Gaudy Night though, it's a murder-free mystery.

Seem to be having a campus novel year: have read Stover at Yale, Pnin, and Cather's The Professor's House this year, and just looked at my unread copy of The Art of Fielding (put it back on the shelf). Also watched The Group last night, though not enough time on campus to make that a campus movie/novel (read the book years ago and gave it to my sister as a questionable graduation present).