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. LaffertyTABLE OF CONTENTSThe Origin of the Feast by Kevin CheekTalking About Talking About Lafferty by Kevin A. CheekLaffertography by Rich PersaudA Few Words About R. A. Lafferty by Eric Walker If You do not Love Words: The Pleasure of Reading Lafferty by Elaine CochraneAn Interview with John Pelan by John OwenLafferty Deserves a Documentary - a call to action by Andrew MassAloysius Ascending by David CrucesAn Instinct for Friendship by John OwenTo Be Continued? by John BarachUp Close, and in Particular by Martin HeavisidesHillary Ardri and Jane Chantal Ardri Illustration by Lydia PetersenThe 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 PetersenAeviternity: R.A. Lafferty's Thomistic Philosophy of Time in the Argo Cycle by Gregorio MontejoSome notes on play, time and Catholic Social Teaching in R.A. Lafferty by John EllisonO Golden, O Silken, O Mother-Loving World! an original story by Daniel Otto Jack PetersenThe Prybar Spiel by Noah WarenessThe Woman Who Wondered What Onions Think by J SimonOf Crystalline Labyrinths and the New Creation by Michael BishopThe Six Fingers of Time - an essay by Andrew FergusonThe Six Fingers of Time - a review by Kevin A. CheekThe Six Fingers of Time by R. A. LaffertyList of Contributors