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Copyright © 2020 by Ellena Savage
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Some of these essays have appeared elsewhere, in slightly or very different form: ‘Yellow City’ in Paris Review Daily, November 2018; ‘Satellite’ in Chart Collective: Legend, 2017; ‘Allen Ginsberg’ in Scum Magazine, October 2017; ‘Unwed Teen Mum Mary’ in Choice Words, Allen & Unwin, 2019; ‘You Dirty Phony Saint and Martyr’ in the Lifted Brow No. 32, December 2016 (and shortly afterwards republished online in Literary Hub); ‘Friendship Between Women’ in Cosmonaut’s Avenue, August 2018; ‘The Literature of Sadness’ in the Lifted Brow No. 33, March 2017; ‘Turning Thirty’ in the Lifted Brow Online, December 2017. The titles ‘Holidays with Men’ and ‘Antimemoir, as in, Fuck You (as in, Fuck Me)’ are taken from pieces previously published in, respectively, the Suburban Review Vol. 1, 2013, and the Lifted Brow No. 35, September 2017. Some lines and observations in this book have appeared, unedited, in the self-published, closed-circuit weekly email newsletter Little Throbs.
Published by The Text Publishing Company, 2020
Book design by Jessica Horrocks
Cover images by Simone Anne /Stocksy & iStock
Typeset by Jessica Horrocks & Duncan Blachford
ISBN: 9781922268563 (paperback)
ISBN: 9781925923179 (ebook)
A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia