"Topograph offers a rough sketch of the New Southern literary landscape. The work represents a remarkably wide canvas of styles and sensibilities. It ranges in tone from the darkly hilarious to die deeply earnest. There are one-minute stories, fractured prose poems, playfully ironic instructions, fragments of pulp fiction, essays about poetry, code-riddled espionage tales, epigrammatic poems, inventively structured memoirs, and lyrical invocations to destruction. And much more. Taken together, they produce a revealing literary map of the region.Jeff Jackson has an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. He's written several plays for the Obic-Award winning Collapsable Giraffe theater company. His fiction was selected by novelist Dennis Cooper for the anthology Userlands. He is a three-time fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Arts Editor of Charlotte ViewPoint. Read Less