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.