I'm pleased that Darryl weighed in, and am looking forward to his next book. Last year I actually used "If I Never Get Back" in a class that I offered on Baseball fiction, thus marrying two of my loves. I am looking forward to his new effort. More whimsically, a student, who has taken me for both classes on Twain and another on American humor, surprised me this Christmas by giving me a new book (which I hadn't heard of--"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim" by Mark Twain with W. Bill Czolgosz. I guess there is no end to Twain's never-ending presence. Joe McCullough