Sasha Cagen – Jill Grinberg Literary Management

Sasha Cagen

Sasha Cagen is a writer, coach, and founder of the quirkyalone movement, about supporting women and men who prefer to be single rather than settle, with special focus on the empowerment of women to know their worth. Her work has been featured in dozens of media outlets including CNN, NPR, BBC, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics, To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us, and is at work on a memoir. She spent five years in Buenos Aires, Argentina teaching, where she created the Tango Adventure, an immersive course that combines dance lessons with life coaching, and is currently based in her native Rhode Island.

Agent

Jill Grinberg

Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics

There was a time when a single woman over 25 was called an old maid. Mothers fretted these unfortunate creatures might be condemned to a committing a crime of tragic proportions: living a life of eternal spinsterhood. Fortunately, in the 21st century, TV shows like Sex and the City affirm that it’s more than ok – it’s cool to be single. Sasha Cagen has coined the term that defines the lonely romantic who prefers her (or his) own company to that of a less desirable counterpart. Defining “singledom as a natural resting state” for quirkyalones, Cagen’s guide is the best kind of self–empowerment: incisive, savvy, hilarious. Equal parts self–help and hilarious pop culture, Quirkyalone is self-empowerment for the wise people of the world. Including quizzes, lists, it’s not-your-average relationship book.

Praise for Quirkyalone

“Cagen’s up to something that could be as important for women (and men) as The Feminine Mystique was years ago…” –Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

“Fun, inspirational and provocative, this book is the perfect antidote to the Valentine’s-inspired coupling.” –Publishers Weekly

Publisher

HarperOne

Publication Date

January 6, 2004

Age Category

Adult

Genre

Nonfiction/Self Help

Rights

JGLM

To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us

More and more, we are a nation of list-makers, from grocery lists, New Year’s resolutions, and things to do before we die to DVDs to rent and people we’ve kissed. In To-Do List (based on the popular blog of the same name, todolistblog.com) Sasha Cagen celebrates the humble to-do list, exploring the ways these scribbled agendas reflect our personalities and passions.

To-Do List is both a celebration of lists and a peek at the lists that others create. Broken down by subjects like “Daily Lists” to “Sex Lists,” it’s a fascinating collection of lists from everyday people to the well-known:

Novelist Nick Hornby’s list of desert island discs

A therapist’s secret fears (“I HATE having to think about clients in relation to my hair or clothes”)

A shopping list from chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse

A woman’s accomplishments before her thirtieth birthday (“Hot air ballooned over the Serengeti,” “Danced on a table in Vegas”)

Qualities one man is looking for in a future wife, including “Chews with her mouth shut” and “Will let me give my first son the middle name of ‘Jacob'”

With each list, Cagen offers the story behind it and a prompt for readers to compare notes and take their own stab at a similar list.

Voyeuristic and interactive, To-Do List will show you just how much — and what — your lists say about you.