PAGE D1 'Promised Land' Author Dies Claude Brown, who jolted America with "Manchild in the Promised Land," his 1965 book about growing up in Harlem, was 64.
Using a sophisticated regional climate model — developed in the Eltahir group over the past 25 years, and which represents conditions in the atmosphere as well as over land — the authors conducted simulations using both irrigated and non-irrigated settings.
Interestingly, while the study focused on commercial land, the authors concluded that "vacant land intended for residential use increased even more sharply in value, rising more than five-fold in the New York metropolitan area" between the first quarter of 1999 and the second quarter of 2006.
It sells copies of 712 college essays that the site said landed the authors in top colleges.
Some enchanting exotic graphics from old passports were used to illustrate the stories on far-flung lands, from authors including Dave Eggers and Mark Danner.
Corporate publishers do certain types of books, the ones that have a chance of landing their authors on the "Today" show or on the discount table at Costco, quite well.
Based on more than a thousand interviews, written in broad imaginative strokes, this book, at 622 pages, is something of an anomaly in today's shrinking world of nonfiction publishing: a narrative epic rigorous enough to impress all but the crankiest of scholars, yet so immensely readable as to land the author a future place on Oprah's couch.
"As if I were a dark, unfinished patch in the middle of a bright, forgotten landscape painted by someone else?" Like most devoted New Yorkers who find themselves in La-La Land, the author goes through at least half of the five stages of grief.
Joyce's writings, like an old pilgrim's hoard, are seen as a treasure that readers and critics have at their disposal to find references from other lands and authors.
When Simon & Schuster innovated with print-only deals -- thereby landing bestselling authors who were otherwise never going to sign with any major publisher -- the resulting press on these deals (and likely pressure from other publishers) caused an immediate retreat.
