Mormon Literature: A Decade in Review

My friend Ryan Salzgiver was fully aware he was being pedantic last year when he complained to me at length about people talking like 2019 marked the end of a decade. His mathematics, though, were sound: since there was no year zero, you’d end up short by a year if they all ended on 9. If we want to avoid creating a nonade somewhere, we have to count 2020 as the end of a decade, not the beginning. It was a minor point, but who was I to complain about his complaint?