Mormon Literature Is Arriving

And it’s time for literary critics to catch up

Jacob Lawrence, The Library (1960). Smithsonian American Art Museum.

I. Brighter Day Dawning

This May, I saw a Facebook post from my friend Steven Peck. “It is time to spill the beans,” he said. For some time, he had resisted the urge to tell everybody that he’d signed a contract for an edition of his 2009 novel A Short Stay in Hell to appear in Penguin U…