Campus Tramp Collection of Classic Erotica Book 7 edition by Lawrence Block Literature Fiction eBooks
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There’s a song they used to sing at Antioch College, and it went something like this
“She was just a little freshman
Victim of Admission’s whim
Then she met an upperclassman—we won’t name him—
And she had a child by him.
“Now he’s off in New York City
Rescued by the co-op plan
While she walks the streets of Yellow Springs, Ohio,
Looking for another man.”
Ah, they don’t write ‘em like that anymore, and it’s not hard to see why. And the sad story recounted in the song is not entirely unlike that of Linda Shepard, titular (so to speak) heroine of CAMPUS TRAMP.
The story of the book may be more interesting than the story told in the book. I wrote it in July of 1959, at the Hotel Rio on West 47th Street in New York. I’d just arrived from, yes, Yellow Springs, having spent a year writing books for Harry Shorten, editing the college newspaper, and giving short shrift to my academic studies. (This was my third year at Antioch. I was there for two years, took a year off to work at a literary agency, and then came back, only to discover that, having seen Paree, you couldn’t keep me down on the farm. I tried to drop out during the first semester, got manipulated into staying by my parents, and somehow finished the year. Now I was in New York, where I was to spend the summer writing, before returning for what was supposed to be my last year of school.)
Well. My agent came up with an assignment. William Hamling, publisher of science fiction and Rogue Magazine, had decided to initiate a line of erotic novels similar to what I’d been writing for Midwood. Could I write one?
I could and did, and thought it might be amusing to use Antioch as a setting, and to choose the characters’ surnames from the buildings and dormitory units on the Antioch campus. I picked the title CAMPUS TRAMP and sent it off, and they liked it well enough in Hamlingville (that would be Evanston, Illinois, IIRC) to ask for more.
Not long after I’d finished the book, I got a letter from Yellow Springs. The Student Personnel Committee, having taken a long look at my academic performance, advised me of their decision that I might be happier elsewhere. I thought this was very perceptive of them, that I would indeed be happier almost anywhere else, and the passive-aggressive lout I was at the time found this an ideal resolution to a situation I seemed incapable of resolving on my own. Their letter had left the door slightly ajar, if not wide open; I sensed I could talk my way back in, but why?
Then CAMPUS TRAMP came out, and a copy or two made it all the way to Yellow Springs, and a legend sprang up. I’d written the book as payback, it was said, a way to revenge myself upon the school that had expelled me. Now when I’d written CAMPUS TRAMP I’d still thought I was to return in the fall. And I was if anything profoundly grateful to the school for having cut the umbilical cord and sent me out into the world. No end of people knew better, even as they were sure they knew who the models were for the various characters—but that happens all the time. But never mind. One recalls the newspaperman’s line from THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend!”
I wish I knew who painted the cover, as it almost had to have been someone familiar with the college; that’s a remarkably accurate representation of Antioch’s Main Building, towers and all. Copies of the book commanded high prices at Antioch Senior Sales over the years, I’ve been assured, and Christian Feuerstein used to perform inspired readings of the text at what I can but assume were memorable occasions. I just wish someone had thought to hire her to do the audiobook.
This ebook edition of CAMPUS TRAMP contains as a bonus the opening chapter of the next volume in the Collection of Classic Erotica, COMMUNITY OF WOMEN.
Campus Tramp Collection of Classic Erotica Book 7 edition by Lawrence Block Literature Fiction eBooks
Lawrence Block's classic (and only marginally disguised) story about Antioch and life in "the Gulch" during the late 1950s and 1960s is well worth reading, if only for the memories it will trigger. Anyone who shot pool outside the Record office, or hung out on the stoop, or danced in Red Square, or hiked in the Glen, or railed about food in the Caf, or partied at Birch, or belonged to Maples, or knew J.D. Dawson / James P. Dixon / Mort Rauh / Mickey McCleery / Irwin Abrams / Walter Anderson / Louis Filler / Meredith Dallas / Clarence Leuba / Ollie Loud and others, or listened to WYSO, or remembers "Murph", owes Mr. Block a massive vote of thanks for authorizing a reprint of this book. Antiochians - do yourselves a big favor and buy it (and for fun, see how many of the dorm hall names you can recognize and place).RS - class of 1967
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Campus Tramp Collection of Classic Erotica Book 7 edition by Lawrence Block Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Lawrence Block wrote this book when he was 21, in the summer after his junior year in college. He explains in his afterward to the e-book edition how he set this novel in a fictionalized version of his alma mater, Antioch College. Character surnames are taken from school dormitories. One of the main characters has a job as school newspaper editor, which was also Block's job for one semester. In fact, this book has become a cult classic on the Antioch campus. According to IMDB, it was the basis for a 45-minute student film called Antioch Adventures.
The book itself has serious flaws--some inane plot twists, and over-reliance on sex scenes chock full of silly metaphors (perhaps they might have been considered graphic by the standards of the day, but they seem very PG13 now). But the book does tackle themes that would have been very controversial back in 1960, such as living as a closet homosexual and abortion.
Even at the age of 21, Block certainly displayed a talent for sketching characters and driving a plot forward (even when it when stretches plausibility). All in all, I have to say I enjoyed it despite myself.
Surprisingly, this was actually the fifth book LB wrote, according to his afterward.
Loved it.
Very fun read, especially for Antioch College Alumni!
Lawrence Block's classic (and only marginally disguised) story about Antioch and life in "the Gulch" during the late 1950s and 1960s is well worth reading, if only for the memories it will trigger. Anyone who shot pool outside the Record office, or hung out on the stoop, or danced in Red Square, or hiked in the Glen, or railed about food in the Caf, or partied at Birch, or belonged to Maples, or knew J.D. Dawson / James P. Dixon / Mort Rauh / Mickey McCleery / Irwin Abrams / Walter Anderson / Louis Filler / Meredith Dallas / Clarence Leuba / Ollie Loud and others, or listened to WYSO, or remembers "Murph", owes Mr. Block a massive vote of thanks for authorizing a reprint of this book. Antiochians - do yourselves a big favor and buy it (and for fun, see how many of the dorm hall names you can recognize and place).
RS - class of 1967
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