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Kramer’s books offer eye-level accounts of the social, political, and bureaucratic effects of shifting technologies, ways of business, and cultural and political frameworks on the everyday lives of those involved. They bring the techniques and voice of fiction writing — save for the invention of facts — to carefully researched nonfiction. The first book, writtenContinue reading “Books”

Recently Published Articles A CUTTING–EDGE BRAIN SURGERY FOR TREMORE, WITHOUT SURGERYIt 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 forContinue reading “Selected Writings”

In 1998, after years of book and magazine writing and teaching, Kramer founded a conference for narrative writers and editors. For its first three years, it convened at Boston University and was called Aboard the Narrative Train. In 2001 it traveled across the Charles River. Renamed the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, it grew fromContinue reading “Conferences”