Once was a phenomenon, twice was amazing, three times-we may just be onto something. This is the third issue of Feast of Laughter in celebration of R. A. Lafferty’s 101st birthday on November 7.
Table of Contents Introduction by Kevin Cheek Introduction to the Boomer Flats Gazette by Dan Knight
World Abounding - New Essays Ray by Rick Norwood One Cannot Give Too Many Instances by John Ellison Eudaimonism in R.A. Lafferty’s Aurelia by Gregorio Montejo Outside the Cathedral by Kevin Cheek Copyright, Copyleft, Copyfuture by Rich Persaud Lafferty and His Monsters - Part 1: The Early Works by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen The Annals and Ace; or, The Textual History of an Historical Text by Andrew Ferguson
All But the Words - Translating Lafferty From Russia with Laff: A Very Brief Report on R.A. Lafferty’s Russian Translations by Niyaz N. Abdullin
Bright Coins in a Never-Ending Stream - Reprinted EssaysR. A. Lafferty: Effective Arcanum by Don Webb A Sound of Lafferty by Roman Orszanski R. A. Lafferty: The Function of Archetype in the Western Mystical Tradition by Dena C. Bain Taylor Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne by Paul Kincaid R.A. Lafferty, Sir Thomas More, and the Problems of Utopia by Robert Bee Introduction to R.A. Lafferty’s The Fall of Rome by Darrell Schweitzer Introduction to The Devil Is Dead by Charles Platt
In Deepest Pen and Ink - Laffertian Illustration Hound Dog’s Ear illustrations by Lissanne Lake
Through Other Eyes - Reviews The Man Who Made Models - Review by Stephen Case Past Master by R. A. Lafferty by MPorcius Utopia by Thomas More by MPorcius R.A. Lafferty - Apocalypses (1977) by Gene McHugh
Club Mentiros - Works inspired by Lafferty Three Poems by Bill Rogers DOMOVOI THE GREEN MORNING MARTINMAS WEEK The Lost Children of Boo-Hay World by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen Who Was That? by Martin Heavisides People are Strange by Christopher Blake Justice by Dan Knight An Afterword to Justice by Gregorio Montejo Bone Girl by J Simon Barstone by Stephen R. Case
Correspondence with the Cranky Old Man from Tulsa Letter from Alan Dean Foster to R. A. Lafferty R. A. Lafferty’s Reply to Alan Dean Foster Letter from Alan Dean Foster Nominating Lafferty for the Arrell Gibson Life Achievement Award
Guesting Time - Interview An Interview with Harlan Ellison by Andrew Mass
The Man With the Aura - Lafferty’s own words!
Don’t Just Read Lafferty, Be Lafferty! by Anthony Ryan Rhodes Tell It Funny, Og by R. A. Lafferty Configuration Of The North Shore by R. A. Lafferty
