Today, an Argo Atlas, to be combined with a Coscuin Atlas at some point. As I put it together, I thought it would be fun to mention some connections between Finnegan and Dana Coscuin, too. Readers who come to The Devil is Dead without having read the Coscuin Chronicles meet a character named Angela Cosquin in chapter seventeen. She is a Basse-Terre barmaid with an odd last name, and the reader learns that her father drew treasure maps for confidence men. Nothing in the novel

On August 8, 1971, a book by Lafferty received a rare notice in The New York Times Book Review. The review drew attention to the heady blend of “politics, poetry, [and] magic” in The Flame Is Green and noted the bright splashes of humor threaded through its moral symbolism. Unfortunately, the final two volumes of the Coscuin tetralogy remain unpublished. Taken as a whole, the Coscuin novels constitute a major work, worthy of being set alongside Argo and Green Tree. Until that

Notes on The Coscuin Chronicles. Like everything in the Resources section, it is a work in progress, but it may also be useful to others. It distills the series’s central dialectic: a metaphysical struggle between the Green Revolution, a vital and chaotic force rooted in earth and tradition, and the Red Revolution, an ideological, sterile, and nihilistic current. 306 pages.

A while back, I shared some thoughts on East of Laughter in response to a discussion about certain obiter dicta on pornography in an essay Lafferty wrote. Though it didn’t generate any discussion, I stand by the idea that Lafferty’s most profound fictional engagement with human sexuality appears in The Flame is Green (1971). To ensure these thoughts aren’t lost, I’m preserving them here. Lafferty rarely engages with eros explicitly or in a sustained way, but in The Flame is G