Mark is an author who has published widely on film, literature, and religion. He lives in South Pasadena, California.


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Rachel Gracey, “Pacifica State Beach” (2018, lithograph and relief, 22.5 x 28 cm)

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Religion and American Literature Since 1950

From James Baldwin and Flannery O'Connor to Don DeLillo and Philip Roth, writers have often been the most insightful chroniclers of the changing religious landscape in the U.S.

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Edited by Mark Eaton and Bruce Holsinger

This volume of essays explores the varieties of historical fiction now. Historians, literary critics, and novelists reflect on the genre of historical fiction. With an afterword by Hilary Mantel.

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Historical Fiction Now

Edited by D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski

My review of this volume appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books September 10, 2023.

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Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today

Edited by Gary Totten

My chapter “The New Novel of Slavery in the Twenty-first Century” appears in this volume, the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on multiethnic literature of the United States.

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A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States