Mark
Kramer
writer + empathy farmer
Why do we feel empathy for some people but not others?
Or is empathy a feeling that just kind of happens (or doesn’t)?
Is empathy always a good thing?
Would you believe some say it’s not - that empathy can actually cause war and genocide?
Can we learn to empathize?
Mark’s long-term empathy project asks these and other questions of a concept and feeling so often championed as the antidote to our troubled relationships and political rage, the solution to so many of our world’s many problems.
His empathy farming work is growing into a blog and a book … and cultivating a network of people as concerned with empathy as he is.
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Mark Kramer is a Pittsburgh-based writer, working primarily in narrative journalism and essays. His long-term project on empathy is growing into a blog and a book.
He's covered everything from housing and neighborhood change to squatter settlements in major metro areas. He's written about religion and race, as well as city chickens and parks, urban deer hunting and foraging. Among many other topics.
Featured Writing
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The Urban Deerhunter
You’ll probably never see them, but Pittsburgh’s woods are full of camouflaged bowmen.
Pittsburgh Quarterly
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When The Arena Came to Town
Sala Udin is one of the thousands of Lower Hill residents displaced by “urban renewal.” The trauma endures to this day.
Anthony Bourdain’s Explore Parts Unknown on CNN
