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Stephen Baker
Goodreads Author
Born
Bryn Mawr, Pa, The United States
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Influences
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March 2012
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The Numerati
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2008
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50 editions
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Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything
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2011
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10 editions
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The Boost
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2014
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10 editions
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Final Jeopardy: The Story of Watson, the Computer That Will Transform Our World
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Donkey Show
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Dark Site: The Boost Trilogy--Alissa's Story
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Donkey Show, the novel
My new novel, Donkey Show, is out in trade paperback. The digital version will come next month, with the official launch.
The idea for the novel came back in the 80s. I was working as a general assignment reporter at the (now defunct) El Paso Herald-Post when a freelance photographer returned from a harrowing experience across the border, in Ciudad Juarez. A reputed drug lord, Gilberto Ontiveros, a Read more of this blog post »
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“Friendship is love without his wings.”
― Final Jeopardy: The Story of Watson, the Computer That Will Transform Our World
― Final Jeopardy: The Story of Watson, the Computer That Will Transform Our World
“I’m tempted to say something I’ll probably regret,” he said. “We can tell you after each question the probability that we’re going to win the game.” He laughed. “Is there room for that analysis?”
― Final Jeopardy: The Story of Watson, the Computer That Will Transform Our World
― Final Jeopardy: The Story of Watson, the Computer That Will Transform Our World
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“Charm is not universal, desire is too often unreciprocated, it gathers and pools in the wrong places, slowly becoming toxic.”
― A Separation
― A Separation
“For her part, Kelly expressed warm feelings about Cooper as well. “He’s the one who taught me to relax during a scene and let the camera do some of the work,” she would recall. “On the stage you have to emote not only for the front rows, but for the balcony too, and I’m afraid I overdid it. He taught me the camera is always in the front row, and how to take it easy.”
― High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
― High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
“Around their mounds, they dug scores of miles of watercourses on the order of Venetian canals; one allowed them to punt their craft two and a half miles across Pine Island between the sound and Matlacha Pass, saving themselves from a ten-mile paddle around either end of the island.”
― The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
― The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
“Except for his hands, which belonged on a piece of monumental sculpture, and his small head, he was well proportioned. His muscles were large and round and he had a full, heavy chest. Yet there was something wrong. For all his size and shape, he looked neither strong nor fertile. He was like one of Picasso’s great sterile athletes, who brood hopelessly on pink sand, staring at veined marble waves.”
― The Day of the Locust
― The Day of the Locust
Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time in 2014
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A reading group for Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time". This group reading adventure will begin on January 1, 2014 and go on through December ...more
Montclair Goodreaders Bookclub
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We're not Oprah's bookclub but hey, who is? My goal is just to find a bunch of people in the montclair area who want to do a bookclub type of thing w ...more
