In Germany, Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, published in 1929, was plainly a post-novel in a postfictional form. But the structured world did not end everywhere at quite the same time. In the United States there was a brilliant “last hurrah” of novels for several decades after the fictional form had disappeared in Europe, and Cozzen’s By Love Possessed, published in 1957, might still be considered as a valid fictional work. That special form of fiction, the Short S

MINDWEBS was a weekly half-hour radio series created by Michael Hanson and Steve Gordon for WHA/WERN, Wisconsin Public Radio in Madison. Instead of conventional radio plays, listeners heard readings of science-fiction and fantasy stories, usually performed by Hanson and accompanied by music, sound effects, and a handful of other voices. The series began in 1975 and continued into the 1980s. Although the Lafferty letters I have read never mention it, MINDWEBS adapted his “Hand

Works resource updated. I have turned it into the research tool I wish had existed when I began reading Lafferty. It brings together a large body of information in a searchable catalogue. You can browse Lafferty’s works, publication appearances, completion dates, reviews, variants, translations, links to cover art and full issue scans, and references to archival holdings at the University of Tulsa and the University of Iowa, from which manuscript scans may be ordered. The pro