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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

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 EssaysWorking With Ray: My Experiences with R.A. Lafferty by Greg KetterRay's Recycling Rewards Program by John OwenValery'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 MontejoThrough a Glass Darkly by Craig MayExploring Themes From Catholic Theology in Two Short Stories by R. A. Lafferty by John EllisonLate Light by Rich PersaudLafferty's Monkey by Clinton Reid ClaussenLafferty: An Appreciation by Patrick May>All the People: International FandomSeven-Story Dream on Terschelling by Peter SijbengaThe Lafferty Centennial In Japan by Kenji MatsuzakiContinued on Next Book by 7 Japanese Laffertians>Those Who Know Everything: Interviews>Oh, Whatta Ya Do When The Well Runs Dry: Reprinted EssaysDespair and the Duck Lady by Michael SwanwickR. A. Lafferty-the secret sci-fi genius more than ready for a comeback by David BarnettTwice Beheaded: R. A. Lafferty's Thomas More by Anne Lake PrescottExcerpt from a Thesis by John EllisonA Richness of Endings by Dan KnightIntroduction to More than Melchisedech by Robert Whitaker Sirignano>You're On The Right Track, Kid: ReviewsR. A. Lafferty Spins a Yarn by Keith PurtellStrange Doings - a review by Stephen R. CaseOklahoma Gothic by Martin HeavisidesArrive at Easterwine-a brief review by Kevin CheekTask Force Fifty-Eight and a Half by Heywood ReynoldsIron Tears - a review by Darrell Schweitzer>The Emperor's Shoestrings: Works Inspired by R. A. LaffertyLand of the Great Horses by Peter SijbengaThe Honking Worm and the Gorilla Cheetah by Bill RogersThe Waltz Macabre by Logan GianniniFourteenth Chambers by Noah WarenessA Fisherman's Tune by Daniel Otto Jack PetersenWhat I Wrote for Andronicus by Stephen R. Case>Primary Education: LaffertiesAn Interview with R. A. Lafferty by Tom JacksonSodom and Gomorrah, Texas by R. A. Lafferty

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.