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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living
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'With both drollness and acuity, Sally Olds takes us into worlds we may not have ever visited before. In these sometimes alien spaces she explores and reports on everyday intimacies and vulnerabilities.

'This book is about working and not working, hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, money and love, labour and pleasure. Across a series of essays, Sally Olds probes the ambivalent utopias of polyamory, cryptocurrency, clubbing, communes, a secret fraternity, and the essay form itself. Curiosity drives each of these adventures into projected worlds, where Olds explores how living with precariousness changes expectations of how a life can be lived in this thrilling appraisal of the state of things.'  (Publication summary)

Notes

  •  Selected as one of the Guardian Australia best Australian books of 2022

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Perth, Western Australia,: Upswell Publishing , 2022 .
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      • Published 30 August 2022
      ISBN: 9780645248043

Works about this Work

Best of 2022 in Australian Reading Scott Limbrick , Jonno Revanche , Ellen O'Brien , Megan Cheong , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023;

— Review of This All Come Back Now 2022 anthology short story ; Unlimited Futures 2022 anthology short story ; An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life Paul Dalla Rosa , 2022 selected work short story ; Women I Know Katerina Gibson , 2022 selected work short story ; Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story ; Everything Feels like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald , 2022 selected work short story ; The Burnished Sun Mirandi Riwoe , 2022 selected work short story ; This Devastating Fever Sophie Cunningham , 2022 single work novel ; Losing Face George Haddad , 2022 single work novel ; Root and Branch : Essays on Inheritance Eda Gunaydin , 2022 selected work essay ; People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay ; The Diplomat Chris Womersley , 2022 single work novel
What Is This Thing I’m Doing? Zora Simic , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2022;

— Review of People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay

'Two new books explore the territory between polyamory’s utopian history and its practice today'

Friendship, Polyamory, Precarity Dion Kagan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 81 no. 4 2022; (p. 238)

— Review of People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay
The Reproachable Essay Timmah Ball , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , October 2022;

— Review of People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay

'Early on in Sally Olds’ debut essay collection I’m immersed in a familiar world:

It was a Friday night and I was drunk outside a nightclub in Melbourne called Hugs and Kisses, sometime in early 2018. I wondered aloud about the building – a two storey red brick warehouse that looked industrial, or pre-gentrification industrial, given that ‘industrial’ usually refers to post-industrial buildings retrofitted with industrial chic (open spaces, washed concrete, bare bulbs).

  (Introduction)

The Best New Books Released in September as Selected by Avid Readers and Critics Kate Evans , Claire Nichols , Sarah L'Estrange , Declan Fry , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2022;

— Review of People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay ; This Devastating Fever Sophie Cunningham , 2022 single work novel
Sally Olds People Who Lunch Caitlin Doyle-Markwick , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 10-16 September 2022;

— Review of People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay

'Sally Olds’s essay collection, People who Lunch: Essays on work, leisure & loose living, deals primarily with worlds, or subcultures, on the margins of society. Each holds within it a kernel of hope for a different way of living: club culture with its embrace of hedonism and rejection of living-to-work; cryptocurrency’s promise of financial returns outside state-regulated markets and wage labour; polyamory’s attempts to break free of the stultifying nuclear family unit. None, however, has managed to pose any serious threat to the existing order and most have come to live comfortably within or alongside capitalism.' (Introduction)

The Best New Books Released in September as Selected by Avid Readers and Critics Kate Evans , Claire Nichols , Sarah L'Estrange , Declan Fry , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2022;

— Review of People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay ; This Devastating Fever Sophie Cunningham , 2022 single work novel
The Reproachable Essay Timmah Ball , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , October 2022;

— Review of People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay

'Early on in Sally Olds’ debut essay collection I’m immersed in a familiar world:

It was a Friday night and I was drunk outside a nightclub in Melbourne called Hugs and Kisses, sometime in early 2018. I wondered aloud about the building – a two storey red brick warehouse that looked industrial, or pre-gentrification industrial, given that ‘industrial’ usually refers to post-industrial buildings retrofitted with industrial chic (open spaces, washed concrete, bare bulbs).

  (Introduction)

Best of 2022 in Australian Reading Scott Limbrick , Jonno Revanche , Ellen O'Brien , Megan Cheong , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023;

— Review of This All Come Back Now 2022 anthology short story ; Unlimited Futures 2022 anthology short story ; An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life Paul Dalla Rosa , 2022 selected work short story ; Women I Know Katerina Gibson , 2022 selected work short story ; Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story ; Everything Feels like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald , 2022 selected work short story ; The Burnished Sun Mirandi Riwoe , 2022 selected work short story ; This Devastating Fever Sophie Cunningham , 2022 single work novel ; Losing Face George Haddad , 2022 single work novel ; Root and Branch : Essays on Inheritance Eda Gunaydin , 2022 selected work essay ; People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay ; The Diplomat Chris Womersley , 2022 single work novel
Friendship, Polyamory, Precarity Dion Kagan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 81 no. 4 2022; (p. 238)

— Review of People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay
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