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new to 12gauge.com?
12gauge.com is art +
literature + culture + technology.
 12gauge.com,
originally known as 12-Gauge
Review, debuted on November
15, 1995 as a literary quarterly designed
to feature the works of the Brooklyn
writers' group. Since then
12gauge has evolved into a project
where extraordinary writers and artists
from around the globe share their
visions.
Despite changes since first appearing in
print form and evolving onto the Web, 12gauge has always remained true to its
original aim: to publish powerful and eloquent fiction and poetry from Brooklyn and
beyond. Now we've added much more.
From the hip and trendy to the truly
profound, the 12gauge listings and reviews are your source for what’s going on in the
Brooklyn/New York scene. 12gauge also sponsors readings, plays, and soon, film.
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Arts section has Film, Dance and Music
reviews. Theater, Video & DVD reviews are on the way.
Metropolitan
has Silent City (Manhattan), A
Day in Brooklyn (Brooklyn), DUMBO (waterfront
neighborhood in Brooklyn) columns.
Metropolitan
also has staff's review of bars, restaurants, & other places of interest to visitors
to and residents of New York City.
Out There
features lifestyle, humor, sports, and odds-and-ends pieces.
Services will soon
feature search engines for Bookstores, Writers' Groups &
Workshops, and Literary-friendly Cafes & Bars
in New York City, as well as artist-centric Job & Apartment
Finders in New York City.
About the name 12-Gauge
'During the pre-inception period of the
grass roots magazine (1993 – 94), I was listening to a lot of Nirvana. I thought, and still think, that Kurt Cobain is a
poet, a balls-out singer-songwriter who wore his heart on his sleeve. On April 8, 1994, Cobain took his own life with a
shotgun blast to the head, at the age of 27. All the musicians I had dug during that
period, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and now Cobain, had killed themselves or
OD’ed at the age of 27—hence became the title of one of my short stories:
“The 27 Club.” I was then 25 years old and only could think and deal in
absolutes. I do condemn gun violence to the core. However, no matter what I
think of weapons in general now, and also suicide, the shotgun symbolized for me, at the
time, a brutally effective way out for an artist in irreversible pain. A kind of
deliverance. It’s a tool for the ultimate act.'
-- Garrett Mok, Publisher |
Original photograph,
"Techno Girl," by Michael Prete. |
