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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2021 longlisted Griffith Review Emerging Voices GREW Prize
Awards for Works
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People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living
Perth
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Upswell Publishing
,
2022
24696883
2022
selected work
essay
'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)
- 2023 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Award for Non-Fiction
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