John Markoff, Author, Katie Hafner, Author, Katherine Hafner, With Simon & Schuster $22.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-68322-1
The spirit of cyberpunk only flickers in these three more-or-less able pieces of journalism about headline hacker cases that shook the computer industry. The authors' straightforward style serves the topic well, and portraits of the hackers'...
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Katie Hafner, Author . Bloomsbury $24.99 (259p) ISBN 978-1-59691-524-4
This evocative, detailed account of the compulsive search for a sensitive, highly responsive concert piano by Canadian musical wunderkind Glenn Gould combines the parallel histories of one of the most controversial and brilliant pianists of the last
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Katie Hafner, Author Scribner Book Company $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-19400-4
In 1938, within days of the Nazi orgy of violence called Kristallnacht, German banker Paul Wallich, an assimilated Jew who considered himself Christian, drowned himself to avoid arrest by the Gestapo. His widow, Hildegard Rehrmann, a non-Jew, fled...
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Katie Hafner, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $21 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0846-8
If this slim volume about a model online community is any indication, there's no end in sight to accounts of the trailblazers of the Internet revolution, despite the recent fits in the market. Standing for Whole Earth `Lectronic Link, the Well was...
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Katie Hafner. Random, $26.00 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6936-1
In a curiously optimistic but ultimately doomed experiment in communal living, journalist and author Hafner (The Well) invites her 77-year-old mother, Helen, to share the household she and her teenage daughter set up together in Lower Pacific...
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Katie Hafner. Spiegel & Grau, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-954118-05-8
Journalist Hafner’s marvelous fiction debut centers on a socially awkward man’s neuroses about fatherhood. While working as the chief technology officer at a startup in Philadelphia, Ethan meets Barb, a University of Pennsylvania grad student, and...
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Katie Hafner, Author, Matthew Lyon, With Simon & Schuster $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-81201-4
Hafner, coauthor of Cyberpunk, and Lyon, assistant to the president of the University of Texas, here unveil the Sputnik-era beginnings of the Internet, the groundbreaking scientific work that created it and the often eccentric, brilliant scientists...
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