Southern Methodist University Press


Texas Bound
8 by 8: Stories by Texas Writers, Read by Texas Actors
Produced by Kay Cattarulla
Directed by Randy Moore
Hosted by Tess Harper

"Texas Bound Contains some bang-up stories people will enjoy reading—and hearing. For the special nature of this collection is that eight of the stories are also available on audiotapes. It's a real treat, for example, to hear Tommy Lee Jones reading Larry McMurtry's ‘There Will Be Peace in Korea' or William Goyen's actress-widow, Doris Roberts, reading her husband's grand ‘The Texas Principessa.'"—Don Graham

"An immediate hit."—Dallas Morning News

"A treat for the ear."—Austin American Statesman

"Great voices give life to great words."—Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Something to lure even the most ascetic bibliophile into a night of in dulgence."—D Magazine

Texas Bound: 8 by 8 consists of two 90-minute audiocassette tapes containing eight stories read live by Texas actors at the Dallas Museum of Art as part of the literary series "Art and Letters Live."

The following stories and eleven others are included in Texas Bound: 19 Texas Stories, the companion book, also available from SMU Press.

"Texas Bound—readings of Texas stories by Texas actors—seems to me a wonderful idea and should by obligatory reading and listening for anyone interested in the increasingly impressive output of Texas writers."—Horton Foote

Randy Moore, born in Houston, is a long-time member of the Dallas Theater Center. He has played leads in dramatic productions of the plays of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov as well as in such contemporary plays as Glengarry Glen Ross, Marat/Sade, and Preston Jones's Texas Trilogy.

TESS HARPER has starred in Daddy's Dying . . . Who's Got the Will?, Far North, Tender Mercies, and Crimes of the Heart, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She lives in Dallas.

Southwest Life and Letters

CONTENTS
  • Larry McMurtry's "There Will Be Peace in Korea" read by Tommy Lee Jones

  • William Goyen's "The Texas Principessa" read by Doris Roberts

  • Robert Flynn's "The Midnight Clear" read by Tess Harper

  • Reginald McKnight's "The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas" read by Tyress Allen
  • Lynna Williams's "Personal Testimony" read by Judith Ivey

  • Tomas Rivera's "Picture of His Father's Face" read by Roger Alvarez

  • Annette Sanford's "Trip in a Summer Dress" read by Norma Moore

  • Lawrence Wright's "Escape" read by Randy Moore
Texas Bound
ISBN 0-87074-369-4 $15.95

2 boxed cassette tapes in Dolby stereo.
Playing time: approx. 3 hours.
Fiction.

Publication Date: November 1993.

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