Feast of Laughter 2

If you love R. A. Lafferty's wondrous and transpossible stories, you've come to that love by unmarked roads. You've made your own way into one of the densest and most crazily jigsawed mythworlds ever created-a body of work that nobody will ever see all the way into, and no two will ever see the same way. You've helped dig out a labyrinth, and it's a joyous thing, but the labyrinth is more than the digging. This volume is dedicated to the observation that the fog of obscurity is ever so slowly lifting from Lafferty's world, and every year it's a little easier to find your way in. It's dedicated to all the raw colts-the old ones and young-who are coming to these works for the first time.

Table of Contents

Inventions Bright and New: Original Essays

Working With Ray: My Experiences with R.A. Lafferty by Greg Ketter

Ray's Recycling Rewards Program by John Owen

Valery's Really Eyes and the Parade of Creatures by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen

"This Was More Than a Spectacle, More Than an Illusion, It was a Communicating Instrument": R. A. Lafferty and Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Relational Form of Being by Gregorio Montejo

Through a Glass Darkly by Craig May

Exploring Themes From Catholic Theology in Two Short Stories by R. A. Lafferty by John Ellison

Late Light by Rich Persaud

Lafferty's Monkey by Clinton Reid Claussen

Lafferty: An Appreciation by Patrick May

Question: Why? Excuse: Because Monsters by Rich Persaud

All the People: International Fandom

Seven-Story Dream on Terschelling by Peter Sijbenga

The Lafferty Centennial In Japan by Kenji Matsuzaki

Continued on Next Book by 7 Japanese Laffertians

Russia Discovers R. A. Lafferty by Sergei Sobolev and Yakov Varganov

Those Who Know Everything: Interviews

An Interview with Nat! by Kevin Cheek

Oh, Whatta Ya Do When The Well Runs Dry: Reprinted Essays

Despair and the Duck Lady by Michael Swanwick

R. A. Lafferty-the secret sci-fi genius more than ready for a comeback by David Barnett

Twice Beheaded: R. A. Lafferty's Thomas More by Anne Lake Prescott

Excerpt from a Thesis by John Ellison

A Richness of Endings by Dan Knight

Introduction to More than Melchisedech by Robert Whitaker Sirignano

On Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas by Andrew Ferguson

You're On The Right Track, Kid: Reviews

R. A. Lafferty Spins a Yarn by Keith Purtell

Strange Doings - a review by Stephen R. Case

Oklahoma Gothic by Martin Heavisides

Arrive at Easterwine-a brief review by Kevin Cheek

Task Force Fifty-Eight and a Half by Heywood Reynolds

Iron Tears - a review by Darrell Schweitzer

Iron Tears - a review by Don Webb

The Emperor's Shoestrings: Works Inspired by R. A. Lafferty

Land of the Great Horses by Peter Sijbenga

The Honking Worm and the Gorilla Cheetah by Bill Rogers

The Waltz Macabre by Logan Giannini

Fourteenth Chambers by Noah Wareness

A Fisherman's Tune by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen

What I Wrote for Andronicus by Stephen R. Case

Willow Beeman by Howard Waldrop and Steven Utley

Primary Education: Lafferties

An Interview with R. A. Lafferty by Tom Jackson

Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas by R. A. Lafferty