Last week on Fresh Air, Terry Gross paid tribute to her recently deceased husband, Francis Davis, by reading from some of his work. (Davis was a writer and critic, primarily of jazz.) This is the wonderful thing about being a writer: your writing – books, stories, articles, essays – survives, even if, eventually, it goes ignored. But anyone with a genuine interest can read the words you wrote, at various points in your life, and feel your presence. Gross said that, alone now after four decades of marriage, she finds comfort in her late husband's work.
