Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion, chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including, most recently, Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo; After God; Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living; and Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy.