# Victor Lodato Reads Denis Johnson

An episode of [The New Yorker: Fiction](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/256945396), 1 Sep 2025, 1 h 33 min.

Audio: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/uJwtcKQUPuqBQPfusm59/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE9084107167.mp3

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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