Sarah Phair

@SarahPhair

Literary Agent

Sanford J. Greenburger Associates

Literary agent, book enthusiast, and Haribo connoisseur. Mostly here to brag about my clients and maybe find some new ones.

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· 28 Apr 2023

I want a novel about the ‘It’ Girls of yesteryear #mswl thecut.com/article/new-yo…

· 30 Mar 2023

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i don't know whether a book is good or bad or literary or upmarket or high brow or low brow all i know is whether it causes me to gasp. the gasp is the arbiter

#mswl

· 1 Jun 2021

#MSWL narrative food writing that dives deep into the history, culture, and emotion of its subject, similar to #HighOnTheHog which I absolutely loved, LOVED.

Food

· 5 Feb 2020

I absolutely loved Such a Fun Age. Some of the best contemporary writing I have seen about race and class. The biggest #MSWL.

Contemporary

· 12 Sep 2019

Sarah Phair @SarahPhair

Excited to see that Tayari Jones has a new novel. I loved American Marriage for many reasons, but particularly because it felt so Southern.

I am dying for more contemporary Southern stories. Please send them to me. #MSWL

· 26 Aug 2019

Favorite authors I don't represent/ I want the next: Curtis Sittenfeld, Megan Abbott, Jessica Knoll, Anne Helen Petersen, Donna Tartt, Mary Karr, Anne Patchett, Helen Ellis #mswl

· 26 Aug 2019

Sarah Phair @SarahPhair

Send me all of your upmarket, book club fiction. Basically any fiction that could land on this list, this is 100% my thing #mswl: nytimes.com/2019/07/10/boo…

In nonfcition I want: feminist projects, anything about food (especially interested in the future of food and agriculture), millennial driven topics, pop culture entry points w/ elevated discourse, also really want a book on housing... #mswl

· 26 Aug 2019

Sarah Phair @SarahPhair

Today is my first day at @GreenburgerLit and I am open for business! I'll be on the new website next week, but I'm accepting queries now at sphair@sjga.com. Put query in the subject. Here's a reminder of what I want:

Send me all of your upmarket, book club fiction. Basically any fiction that could land on this list, this is 100% my thing #mswl: nytimes.com/2019/07/10/boo…

· 14 Nov 2018

Dear Twitter, I want to expand the nonfiction side of my list. Please send me your feminist narrative nonfiction, pop culture proposals, and anything food related. #mswl

· 13 Aug 2018

Where are the sexy literary novels? I'm reading one now that purports itself as "erotic" and it's just...not. (But shout out to The Pisces, which I loved) #MSWL

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