Selected Writings

Recently Published Articles

A CUTTING–EDGE BRAIN SURGERY FOR TREMORE, WITHOUT SURGERY
It takes readers into a 21st century operating room where a brain surgeon using powerful brain imaging and zaps of focused ultrasound, virtually cures a patient’s essential tremor that had prevented him from working or writing or feeding himself. The technology has potential uses for Parkinson’s, brain cancer, and ALS.

Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, 11/27/2019 (cover). Or: READ HERE.

NOTES FROM THE DUGOUT
The Timeless Boyhood of an American Hero. Columns from the Boston Globe. *insert Richard Nixon’s letter to Mark and a written translation*

NYT Sunday Magazine, 9/11/83 (cover).

Magazine excerpts from Books

CAN GORBACHEV FEED RUSSIA?

NYT Sunday Magazine, 4/9/89

BENIGN VIOLENCE *insert link*
A profile of a surgeon, from Invasive Procedures.

The Atlantic. 251 (May 1983): 46(22).

Craft Articles

VOICE AND MEANING
The Transom Review
Vol. 6 No. 4, 1/8/2007

NARRATIVE JOURNALISM COMES OF AGE
Nieman Reports
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
Vol. 54 No. 3, 10/1/2000

NARRATIVE JOURNALISM COMES OF AGE
Neiman Reports
9/15/2000

BREAKABLE RULES FOR LITERARY JOURNALISTS
Ballantine Books: Preface to Literary Journalism
Co-edited by Mark Kramer and Norman Sims, 1/1/1995

COMING OF AGE AS A WRITER IN THE SIXTIES *insert link*
Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism, Chapter 15

Foreign Language Articles

REGRAS ROMPÍVEIS DO JORNALISMO LITERÁRIO