Cliff Street is part of HarperCollins, which is owned by News Corp., owner of The Post. The book was repped by Washington, D.C.-based agent Gail Ross.Īuthor Herman Wouk – famed author of “The Caine Mutiny” and “War and Remembrance” – celebrated his 84th birthday on May 27 by signing to do a non-fiction book for Cliff Street Books. Snowdon’s research shows that a healthy diet – such as consumption of folic acid found in orange juice and spinach – and development of linguistic skills early in life can help to minimize the impact of Alzheimer’s. “It was the largest brain donor pool in history,” says Snowdon.
“Once a person has Alzheimer’s you can’t go back and ask them what happened before they had the disease,” says Snowdon.Įach nun supplied a detailed family history and willed her brain to the study upon death. He plans to meld the nurses’ personal life stories with the scientific breakthroughs they helped uncover in a book due on bookshelves early next year.Ī key element of the breakthroughs was signing up the nuns nearly a decade ago, before many had shown any debilitating signs of aging. “I was pleasantly surprised,” says Snowdon. The book is to be called “Aging with Grace” and was based on a 100-page proposal that sparked a wild 11-publisher bidding war last week. David Snowdon, an epidemiologist at the University of Kentucky Center for the Study of Aging, did his research with 678 nuns from the School Sisters of Notre Dame. The building has also had at least two small fires.Ī crusading scientist scored a $550,000 advance from Bantam Books for the inside story of his breakthroughs on the aging process – derived from a decade-long study of nuns.ĭr.
The date is in keeping with bad luck at the building so far.ĭuring its construction, the Durst-owned Conde Nast Building was the site of a crane collapse last year that killed one person, snarled midtown traffic for months and forced the postponement of the original April 1999 opening. Even that late date has been a source of discomfort, however. The New Yorker then moves in on August 13. House & Garden will be the first mag in the S.I. Still, insiders say, the evictions are one more reminder that the tweedy, collegial atmosphere encouraged in the William Shawn era – and never totally abandoned in the modern era – will soon be only a memory. Ved Mehta had kept an office, even though he was officially axed as a staff writer when Tina Brown was editor, so his eviction now is no great surprise. Others, such as Alastair Reid and Alison Rose, have not published anything in the weekly in years.
Some, such as Andersen, volunteered for the cut He writes from his Brooklyn home. Most of the writers who are being evicted rarely used their offices for writing. sold off Random House last year, incidentally. “Books, I guess, are not part of the Conde Nast culture,” huffs one insider. THE first wave of employees start moving into the problem-plagued Conde Nast skyscraper in Times Square in less than two weeks – and nowhere is the angst more apparent than at The New Yorker.Įleven New Yorker writers who have private offices at the current digs on West 43rd Street will be without offices as the mag for the first time is moved, physically and corporately, under the same roof as all the other Conde Nast titles – Vanity Fair, Vogue, Glamour, GQ, et al.Īmong The New Yorker writers losing their offices: “Turn of the Century” author Kurt Andersen, humorist Calvin Trillin, film critic Anthony Lane, book critic Daphne Merkin, and prolific writers Tad Friend and Mark Danner.Įven the 23 writers who will keep private digs are peaved since the new 10-foot-by-10-foot offices are smaller and have less bookshelf space than the current offices.
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