Reading after death

You remember that guy you used to hang out with in college? How you would stay up all night talking about deep philosophical issues? And how you each promised if you were the first to die you would come back and tell the other one what the afterlife was all about? But then he died and never came back so you figured there wasn't any afterlife?

Actually Shakespeare has been writing one play a year since he died four hundred years ago and P.G. Wodehouse has written another fifty books, a couple of plays and quite a few short stories, and well, the thing is your friend really does mean to drop by one of these days but he's really busy catching up on his reading...