Feast of Laughter is a celebration of the writing of R. A. Lafferty, the Oklahoma Leprechaun, the epitome of sui-generis, the spinner of tall tales, the creator of a modern literary mythos couched in Western, Irish, Native American, Catholic science Fiction.
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Feast of Laughter, Volume #5 - at long last!The Feast continues! Volume 5 features one of the last stories R.A. Lafferty ever wrote, “The Hand of the Potter: An Idyll,” completed in 1984 and published here for the first time! It also includes reprint of the important Lafferty essay “Riddle Writers of the Isthmus” and the review he wrote for Virginia Kidd of _Astérix et Cléopâtre_ There is an abundance of new content, essays and appreciations, including a section on “How I Discovered Lafferty.” We have new essays from science fiction giants Michael Swanwick and Howard Waldrop and reprints from the legends Gene Wolfe, Michael Bishop. Also included is a long out of print interview with Lafferty by Paul Walker.
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Table of Contents
I Think I Will Dismember the World with my Hands - New Essays
Helical Passion and Saintly Sexpot - How I Discovered Lafferty: Short Essays
Of Elegant Dogs and Returned Men (or) Either Awful Dead or Awful Old - Reprinted Essays
You Talk Like a Friendly Oracle, So Be One To Me - Conversations With and About Lafferty
If They Can Kill You, I Can Kill You Worse - Reviews
Revenge of Strength Unused - Works Inspired by Lafferty
Liar on The Mountain - Lafferty’s Own Voice (print edition only)
And All Tall Monsters Stand
Feast of Laughter, Volume #4
The Feast continues! Volume 4 features the first all-new Lafferty story to be published in 14 years, "The Rod and the Ring," as well as a reprint of the very important Lafferty speech "The Day After the World Ended." There is an abundance of new content, essays and appreciations, as well as reprints from science fiction giants, including Gene Wolfe, Robert Silverberg, Gardner Dozois, and Howard Waldrop.
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Table of Contents At the Twenty-Fifth Hour – Introduction
The Shape of Things to Come – New Essays
On Thunder Mountain – Lightning Essays
On Happy Astrobe – Reports from LaffCon 1
My Grave, and I in It – Reprinted Essays
King-Maker – Reviews
At the Naked Sailor – Interviews with Lafferty
The Deformity of Things to Come – Works Inspired by Lafferty
Nine Day King – The Master’s Own Work
Feast of Laughter, Volume #3At long last, Feast of Laughter Volume #3 is here!
Feast of Laughter 3 - Fall 2015This issue has the best content and production yet, including an interview with Harlan Ellison, correspondence between Lafferty and Alan Dean Foster, and two Lafferty pieces:
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World Abounding - New Essays
All But the Words - Translating Lafferty
Bright Coins in a Never-Ending Stream - Reprinted Essays
In Deepest Pen and Ink - Laffertian Illustration
Through Other Eyes - Reviews
Club Mentiros - Works inspired by Lafferty
Correspondence with the Cranky Old Man from Tulsa
Guesting Time - Interview
The Man With the Aura - Lafferty's own words!
All the People - Those who contributed
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