My wife Mary read all these reviews, and nothing went out of the house, nor did I ever dare punch "Send," without her ok. [Illustration: Photograph of Taylor Prewitt] Taylor Prewitt grew up in McGehee, Arkansas and received his BA in English from the University of Arkansas and his MD from Washington University. His training in internal medicine and cardiology was at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He practiced cardiology at Cooper Clinic in Fort Smith, Arkansas, from 1969 to 2003, interrupted only by spending the year 1974 as a Senior Fellow in Cardiology at the Brompton Hospital in London. He has been reading the novels of Anthony Trollope for some forty years. He is the author of _Reciting Robert Frost in the ICU:_ Essays in the Literature of Medicine and several other collections of book reviews. Cover design by Amanda Holland Author photograph by Charles Paris Westfield Press