title: Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living
author: Mark Taylor
description: Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion and chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University. His most recent books are <i>Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill</i>; <i>Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy</i>; <i>Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo</i>; <i>After God</i>; <i>Mystic Bones</i>; and <i>Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption</i>.
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  First year of printing 2020
  
  
  
  
  
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