When Neil Kramer and I spoke in late April over a popular video conferencing platform, the 50-year-old writer was situated in his childhood bedroom in Queens. It was a Sunday afternoon, seven weeks into a COVID-19 stay-at-home mandate for Kramer and all other “non-essential” New Yorkers. Peeking out from the narrow closet behind him were his baseball glove, a trophy, a mug, and some board games from the ’70s.
Kramer lives in a high-rise building in one of the sections of New York City most impacted by Coronavirus. There, he shares a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment with his 86-year-old mother, Elaine, and his ex-wife, Sophia, who he’s been divorced from for seven years.
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