Paradise by Larry McMurtry

Monday, August 12 through Friday, August 23, 2002. Read by Karl Schmidt.

Larry McMurtry is best known for such western novels as “Lonesome Dove,” but he is an accomplished essayist and memoirist as well. In 1999 he took a cruise to “paradise,” Tahiti and the South Sea Islands. His parents, Hazel and Jeff McMurtry, had been there once, living the rest of their lives in Texas. McMurtry went to Paradise “in order to think and write about” his parents, which he’s done to our pleasure.

(Simon & Schuster; ISBN-10: 0743215656)

Theme: Bill Frisell: “What Do We Do?” from the album “Blues Dream” (Nonesuch)