Feast of Laughter 1: Issue 1

A labor of love by inspired fans, this magazine celebrates the literature of an original American treasure, R. A. Lafferty. Praised by Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe, compared to Borges and Garcia Marquez, Lafferty eludes genres. Sanguine about the availability of his writing, Lafferty fans created this enthusiastic mosaic of conversation, critique, fiction, poetry and art. Now, it's your turn.

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." - G.K. Chesterton

"The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today. By tomorrow, you may have lost something." - R.A. Lafferty

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Origin of the Feast by Kevin Cheek

Talking About Talking About Lafferty by Kevin A. Cheek

Laffertography by Rich Persaud

A Few Words About R. A. Lafferty by Eric Walker

If You do not Love Words: The Pleasure of Reading Lafferty by Elaine Cochrane

An Interview with John Pelan by John Owen

Lafferty Deserves a Documentary - a call to action by Andrew Mass

Aloysius Ascending by David Cruces

An Instinct for Friendship by John Owen

To Be Continued? by John Barach

Up Close, and in Particular by Martin Heavisides

Hillary Ardri and Jane Chantal Ardri Illustration by Lydia Petersen

The Epic of Man and His Friends or Slumming It With the Ontic Outcasts or May Our Eyes Be Big Enough To Take In the Nine Hundred Percent Gain in Everything! by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen

Aeviternity: R.A. Lafferty's Thomistic Philosophy of Time in the Argo Cycle by Gregorio Montejo

Some notes on play, time and Catholic Social Teaching in R.A. Lafferty by John Ellison

O Golden, O Silken, O Mother-Loving World! an original story by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen

The Prybar Spiel by Noah Wareness

The Woman Who Wondered What Onions Think by J Simon

Of Crystalline Labyrinths and the New Creation by Michael Bishop

The Six Fingers of Time - an essay by Andrew Ferguson

The Six Fingers of Time - a review by Kevin A. Cheek

The Six Fingers of Time by R. A. Lafferty

List of Contributors