Victor Lodato Reads Denis Johnson

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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Victor Lodato Reads Denis Johnson is an episode from The New Yorker: Fiction by The New Yorker.

This episode is 01:30:37 long.

This episode was published on Sep 1, 2025.

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