Victor Lodato Reads Denis Johnson

September 1, 2025

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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.

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