No economy there. You might expect a writer to have one story out of a collection that easily leads the pack. You might at least expect him to stumble every once in awhile, please. But not so. The language of this collection never lets up.
Every story is a downpour of image, a deluge of metaphor, a torrent of detail.
In fact, it is a flood of everything that the judge holds sacred. I could never have written this. The Association for Mormon Letters presents an honorary lifetime membership to Richard H. Cracroft. The problem with honoring Richard Cracroft is that such an encomium deserves the eloquence and good humor that he alone is most qualified to give. On one front Richard has been a literary scholar, credentialed in American and Western studies, bringing LDS literature under the legitimizing aegis of those more established fields.