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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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