Read an article today on Kurt Vonnegut's newly released, While Mortals Sleep , out last month--- to my knowledge, his third posthumously released work and one can only hope, it will not be his last. This comes only several months after the release of Mark Twain's Autobiography---kept under wrap s for 100 yrs per the author's own explicit wishes. And there have been so many other posthumously released works---- some that spring to mind, Stieg Larrson's Millennium Series (Girl Who....) trilogy, Robert B. Parker's Painted Ladies , Douglass Adams' Salmon of Doubt ....but there have been so, so many others. It is so tragic that death can cut short the life of someone who still has so much to say to the world. These artists have given themselves to the world in the form of their printed words. And the world certainly believes these artists belong to it. At least with the posthumously released works, it feels a little like we have not yet lost the dear friends...