Sally Olds

A few years ago, Cameron Hurst, Sally Olds, and Oscar Schwartz sat down for a beer at a Melbourne pub and decided to start a newsletter. It would be called The Paris End, after the aspirationally cosmopolitan (yet persistently grotty) hilltop at the eastern end of Melbourne's city centre. It would seek to make much of a striving metropolis. It...

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. People Who Lunch: Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living is about working and not working, hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, money and love,...