About this episode

Victor Lodato joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Denis Johnson's short story 'The Largesse of the Sea Maiden'.

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

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Host: Deborah Treisman

Guest: Victor Lodato

Topics covered

• fiction
• literature
• playwriting
• short stories
• author discussion

Keywords

• Victor Lodato
• Denis Johnson
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
• The New Yorker
• fiction
• literature
• playwright

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Organizations: The New Yorker

Books & works: The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

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