Due out Nov. 6!A book of 100 real, handwritten lists and the stories behind them . . .To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us (Simon & Schuster, November 2007 by Sasha Cagen (author of Quirkyalone)
It's the perfect gift for the listmaker in your life.
Here's a video trailer for To-Do List!I have a special offer for SERIOUS LISTERS (aka glazomaniacs, people with an unusual passion for making lists!) Until November 19, you can get a SIGNED edition from Powell's. Just order online at Powell's and it will be special delivered to you.
Here's a talk that I gave at Google as part of the authors@google series about my process for creating the book, the most intriguing lists in the book, List Slams, and much much more.Here's how happy your friends and family will be when you give them a copy . . .To-Do List is a collection of 100 handwritten lists--AND you get the stories behind them. They're from everyone from a Florida schoolteacher who wants to lose 92 pounds to a young Mormon looking for his ideal mate.
The book is full color inside and out, which means you get to see the lists in all their crossed-out, tactile glory. Really, they?re more than just to-do lists, they?re an inside view into who we are and what we want, from the meaningful to the mundane. The book also includes eleven short essays and original survey data on the habits of our growing list-making nation and musings from me on the roles lists play in our lives.Among the highlights:
1. Novelist Nick Hornby?s list of desert island discs
2. The list of a New Englander afflicted with seasonal affective disorder (with completed items like ?Got out of bed? and ?Opened the shades?)
3. A shopping list from chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse
4. A woman?s accomplishments before her 30th birthday, which include ?Hot air ballooned over the Serengeti? and ?Danced on table in Vegas?
5. A list of 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 name of Jacob?
Voyeuristic and interactive, To-Do List will show you just how much?and what?your lists say about you.
Sasha Cagen is the author of the cult hit Quirkyalone and the founding editor and publisher of the magazine To-Do List and its corresponding blog, todolistblog.com. Her essays have appeared in The Village Voice, Men?s Health, San Francisco Chronicle, and Utne. She lives in San Francisco, California where she keeps lists on a daily (and sometimes hourly) basis.
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