Acknowledgements

Thank you to Stephanie Convery for her ideas, critiques, and constant encouragement. Thank you to Julia Carlomagno for her early support and to Henry Rosenbloom for his editing. Thank you also to Sam Cummins, Alison Croggon, Jenny Darling (and her anonymous reader), Rjurik Davidson, David Garland, Ben Hillier, Benjamin Laird, Corey Oakley, Sam Wallman, and Jacinda Woodhead. Some of the ideas in this book featured in articles published earlier in Overland, Meanjin, the Guardian, and Eureka Street (though the material has been substantially reworked). Thank you to the editors of those publications.