Arts and Letters Live, the literary project sponsored by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Friends of the Dallas Public Library, continues its seventh season through May 10, 1998. The Texas Bound portion of the event incorporates four performances, three are of Texas short stories and one is the touring Selected Shorts program from New York. Three performances remain at the time of this publication:

Monday, March 9: 6:30pm & 8:30pm
Texas Bound from Broadway: The seventh annual appearance of Selected Shorts from New York's Symphony Space theater:
Ann Beattie's "Janus," read by Fionnula Flanagan; Rebecca Lee's "The Banks of the Vistula," read by Lisa Fugard; James Thurber's "The Catbird Seat," read by Isaiah Sheffer.

Monday, March 23: 6:30pm & 8:30pm
Texas Stories: Adults Only
Robert Flynn's "Truth and Beauty," read by G. W. Baily; Katherine Anne Porter's "Magic," read by Ramona Austin; Dagoberto Gilb's "Maria de Covina," read by Octavio Solis.

Monday, April 6: 6:30pm & 8:30pm
Texas Stories: Anything Can Happen
Jim Sanderson's "Ladies' Man," read by Larry Hagman; Tracy Daugherty's "Assailable Character," read by John Benjamin Hickey; Judy Troy's "Ramone," read by Angie Phillips.

The Texas Bound series also goes on tour at the William Edrington Scott Theater of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on May 18, and at the Alley Theatre, Houston on June 1. For more information, call 214/922-1219.

Distinguished writer visits and two salutes to Texas writers Katherine Anne Porter and Larry L. King are also featured literary events in April and May.

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