About this episode
Victor Lodato joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ The Largesse of the Sea Maiden ,” by Denis Johnson, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Lodato is a playwright and the author of the novels “ Edgar and Lucy ,” “ Mathilda Savitch ,” the winner of the PEN USA Award for fiction, and “ Honey ,” which came out in 2024. He has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2012. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices