People who lunch : on work, leisure, and loose living / Sally Olds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olds, Sally, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subculture.

Capitalism.

Australian essays--21st century.

Australian essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

166 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First North American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction to the US edition

For discussion and resolution

A manifesto for post-work polyamory

Good times in Venice

The Buffalo Club

The beautiful piece

Crypto forever.

Notes:

Originally published in Australia by Upswell Publishing, August 2022.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780316565714

0316565717

OCLC:

1382526008