Quinn Tyler Jackson

"The sheer brilliance and sprezzatura of Quinn Jackson's ideas, and his ability to articulate these in fluid, gorgeous, and startlingly original prose and poetry, will capture and hold your attention."-Dania Sheldon, editor of Touched by Fortune's ShadowVancouver, 1998. From his mountain-view Coal Harbor penthouse, Brett Lloyd-Ronan leads a quiet, highly ordered life as co-founder and chief analyst of a thriving quantitative analysis firm. Born into a blue-collar world where opportunity rarely came knocking, he has made patterns and predictability his twin anchors while using his distinctive intellect and skills to navigate the chaotic seas of trading, portfolio hedging, and market modeling.But when the woman he has loved from afar over many years reappears and sails into his sheltered cove, Brett finds that his days will never again begin the same way twice. And the patterns become even more elaborately unpredictable as a retired concert pianist challenges Brett to make abstractions real, and to speak and act when silence and caution may feel safer.Touched by Fortune's Shadow: a triptych is a work of tranquil turmoil. While Brett has found sanctuary and wealth in the fiscal world of risk and margin, at life's heart remain human relationships in which interests and emotions sometimes align, sometimes collide, and never conform to logic. Will Brett, like the Huma bird of legend, remain perpetually in auspicious flight? Or is there a place of truth where he can land and be his fully authentic self?

Cyrus Drake, a celebrated painter at the vanguard of modern expressionism, finds himself ensnared between the echoes of a tragic, hazy past and the harsh realities of a present where his art feels as faded as the rathskeller jazz bar he frequents. Only by revisiting his ancestral roots to confront the truths surrounding a traumatic loss can Cyrus rediscover the passion for life and art he fears has abandoned him.His voyage is not just a return to the physical landscapes and rooms of childhood but a deep, introspective quest into the ecstatic essence underwriting his identity as both artist and human being, capable of love but wary of its risks. Against the backdrop of a postmodern love story that weaves through the bustling streets of Manhattan and the abiding antiquity of Iran's Caspian shores, The Ancestral Sea is a poignant exploration of redemption, the enduring beauty of art, and the possibility of rebirth from the broken stonework of our past hubris.

In his most ambitious literary work to date, Quinn Tyler Jackson delivers an intricately woven tapestry of fractured recollection, longing, and relentless artistic drive. Drawing upon a vivid mosaic of experiences, from his youth in British Columbia's logging camps to the sweltering summer streets of Montreal in the late '80s and New Westminster's seamy weekly rentals in the early 2000s, he crafts a narrative at once intensely personal, gritty, and transcendent. The journey invites readers to leave the page and traverse both the vast nationscape of Canada and the anguished interior of a struggling soul as the protagonist teeters between slow starvation and total isolation.By interlacing poems, short stories, essays, a meta-autobiographical novel, a three-act play, illustrations, and extensive self-reflective interactions with these media, Jackson offers a multifaceted, intermodal poststructuralist view into the complexities of identity, place, and time. Deeply and ambitiously authentic, Midnight at the Arcanum is not content to be a single literary work; it is an overarching examination of itself and the poststructuralist tradition that underlies the work's intricate scaffolding. The numerous illustrations add contextualized visual depth, turning the book into a sensory interpretive journey.Jackson's latest work is an exemplar treatise: a working model of the very literary form it strives to deeply examine, a manifesto on the power of self-defined but nonetheless participatory meaning-making, openly challenging readers to not simply consume text but instead engage with, interpret, and actively redefine the narrative. Each person's unique and shifting contextual lens will generate differences in understanding. Midnight at the Arcanum is both a testament to the transformative power of narrative, and an example of how literature can simultaneously be a mirror of the authentic self and a window to the social soul, even-or especially-when flanked by pedagogy.

Since the time of Noam Chomsky's introduction of phrase structure grammars in 1956-1957, it has been known that formal methods can be applied to the parsing of an infinite variety of input. In practice, however, grammars of sufficient formal power to generate context-sensitive languages in their various forms have lacked efficient generalizable algorithms, or have been of such cumbersome notation and implementation that practitioners in various fields that could otherwise greatly benefit from applied language theory have been shackled to much less powerful underlying parsing engines. The -Calculus (pronounced: meta-ess calculus), an adaptive grammar formalism, and the corresponding adaptive(k) parsing algorithm are shown to have theoretical and practical utility in the fields of classical formal language, combinatorics, computational linguistics, bioinformatics, data mining, and programming language semantics, making tractable many previously difficult to parse languages. This is demonstrated by first building a formal foundation around the septuple of the -Calculus, and then introducing the predicated pushdown automaton augmented with name-indexed tries (PDA-Ts), a new computational machine built upon the classical single stack PDA. After the formal model is established, implementation issues and their time complexity are examined in terms of optimizations used in practice to reduce time complexity. After this framework is established, each of the areas benefited by the -Calculus and its corresponding automata and algorithms is examined in turn using empirical methods.

This edition of Raven Seeking brings back Jackson's poetry first published at the turn of the millennium.

When Professor Anders Byrne is confronted with the loss of his wife, his cleanly mathematical world begins to unwind. What was once safely predictable becomes unclear. He accepts a lectureship at Cambridge, only to find that a former student has followed him through the looking glass to his new life.

Everything in Steven York's life has been carefully planned and built to last a lifetime. Except his sanity.

The short stories in this collection have appeared in The Ampersand, Apotheosis: Journal of the Poetic Genius Society, Distant Worlds, Drop the Buddha, Hauteurs, The Kudzu Monthly, Noesis-E, Perfection, Tickled by Thunder, and Ubiquity: Journal of the Ultranet.

During the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam Hussein gassed Kurdish villages on the Iran-Iraq border. What would it have taken to save one such village? Through information gathered at a game of cards while in convalescence, a nameless agent of the secret society Eyes of Freedom gets his opportunity to find out. The last citizen of Abadoun to die may be the unborn child, who could as easily live to be a soldier against Saddam or as much a savior as the political prisoner the agent is tasked with rescuing. And this man will think to himself, How much are tomatoes worth in America? This is a new edition of Jackson's first novel, first published in the UK as Abadoun.

In the third edition of On Writing Fiction, Jackson discusses points of view, the passage of time, plot & movement, dialog, character development, setting the scene, symbol & allusion, theme & style, artistic growth (and stagnation), autobiographicism, and art's higher purpose. New to this edition is discussion of the treatment of sex and love in fiction, and personal and professional insight on the myths, lies, and potential pitfalls of an author's life.