Tag: Mark C. Taylor

December 6, 2021

Announcing the Columbia University Press Spring 2022 Catalog

Click on the down arrow above to download a PDF of our Spring 2022 catalog. Dear Readers, Close to two years have now passed since the pandemic imposed new limits on all of us. Many of Columbia’s authors have responded...

December 9, 2020

Video: Mark C. Taylor Reads from His New Book, Intervolution: Smart Bodies Smart Things

 “Intervolution is at once informative and thought-provoking—a fascinating exploration of the ever-narrowing gap between men and machines. Mark C. Taylor uses his own experience of chronic illness to probe some of the central questions of our time.” ~Elizabeth Kolbert,...

November 29, 2020

Take a Tour of Our AAR Virtual Exhibit with Wendy Lochner

Hi! I’m Wendy Lochner, the religion editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled fall conferences—SBL/AAR included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits on our blog to accompany our virtual booth. I will miss seeing so many friends...

November 17, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Bookishness, Redlining Culture, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Literature Now series Bookishness Loving Books in a Digital Age Jessica Pressman In Bookishness, Jessica Pressman examines the new status of the book as object and symbol. She explores the...

November 9, 2020

Announcing Our 2020 Religion Catalog

Letter from the editor: With both sadness to miss seeing so many friends in person and great pleasure to share so many exciting new books, I present the Columbia University Press religion catalog for 2020. These titles, which span subjects...

March 7, 2014

Images from Recovering Place by Mark C. Taylor

We conclude our week-long focus on Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill, by Mark C. Taylor by featuring some of the book’s stunning photographs along with excerpts from the book. Divided into short chapters focusing on a specific theme or...

March 6, 2014

Designing Mark C. Taylor's "Recovering Place"

The following post is by Lisa Hamm, a senior designer at Columbia University Press, who worked with Mark C. Taylor on his new book Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill: I received an e-mail from Mark Taylor asking if we...

March 5, 2014

Wendy Lochner on Mark C. Taylor

The following post is by Wendy Lochner, who is Mark Taylor’s editor at Columbia University Press: I first worked with Mark Taylor on his book Field Notes from Elsewhere, his memoir describing his journey back from near-death over the course...

March 4, 2014

Mark Taylor on Recovering Place

“Paradoxically, the more pervasive and invasive Google Earth, GPS and customized apps become, the less we know where we are. And when we don’t know where we are, we don’t know who we are.”—Mark Taylor The following post is by...

February 4, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The Insect Cookbook (really), a New Book from Mark Taylor, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles: The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet Arnold van Huis, Henk van Gurp, and Marcel Dicke Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill Mark C. Taylor A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and...

June 18, 2013

Rewiring the Real reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Read an excellent, detailed review of Mark C. Taylor’s Rewiring the Real by N. Katherine Hayles from the LA Review of Books.

February 1, 2013

Mark C. Taylor interviews Mark Danielewski

Read part of a conversation between Mark C. Taylor, author of Rewiring the Real, and Mark Danielewski, author of House of Leaves.