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Mark Jacobson has been writing for a living for
the past 30 years, following his former career as a New York City
cab driver, an infinitely more difficult and stressful job. After
being shot at by a passenger/robber on 135th Street in upper Manhattan,
he survived to write an article about his experiences for New
York magazine in 1974, which was later adapted into the long-running
TV series Taxi. Failing to get rich from this, alas, he
became a full-time journalist. He has been a staff writer at the
Village Voice, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone,
Natural History, and New York. He was the music critic
and ethics columnist for Esquire. He is also the author
of two novels, Gojiro, an official cult saga in which Godzilla
gets to tell his side of the story, and the outrageously neglected
Everyone and No One.
Rae Jacobson, whose work appears in the Talkback/Backtalk
sections of 12,000 Miles, has cut through the tall weeds
of high school and is currently surveying the taller weeds of
real life. She does this from her perch in the Spanish section
of south Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she types on her first
novel.
Photographs by Nancy Bray Cardozo
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