Readers and writers in Alaska and beyond are grieving the loss of Frank Soos, a beloved emeritus professor from the University of Alaska and Alaska’s Writer Laureate from 2014-16, who died in a bicycling accident last August. Soos was known for his close, empathetic examination of human lives and for the fine craftsmanship of his essays and short stories. Boreal Books has now posthumously brought to readers a final book of his short stories, “The Getting Place.”