Feast of Laughter 2 (Paperback or Softback)

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