Feast of Laughter, Volume 5

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.