[4] The New York Times Book Review said it is "a powerful explication of how deeply magic is embedded in society.

[5] O'Keefe founded Festivus in 1966 to commemorate his first date with his wife Deborah, three years earlier.

Later their son Dan O'Keefe became a writer and worked on the Seinfeld television series.

During the 1997–1998 season, he introduced Festivus to the rest of us in a Seinfeld episode named "The Strike".

She is a writer, publishing numerous magazine articles, as well as the books Good Girl Messages and Readers in Wonderland, works of literary criticism.