Late Sunday Reading

Michael Kruse (in the Houston Chronicle of all places): LAGRANGE, Ga.— Michael Bishop, whose son was a German instructor at Virginia Tech, sat one morning last month in a classroom at LaGrange College, ready to read one of his stories to his students in Creative Writing 3308.



"This was Jamie's idea," he told them.



Jamie Bishop left behind on his computer 10 notes. Michael Bishop, an award-winning science fiction writer, saw them and saw stories. At first he wanted to honor his son by finishing what the son could not. It was a way to keep a connection, and to cope.



Dan Barry: In a place that no longer belongs where it has always been, there rises from wood-slat pens the farewell…