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This is the New Yorker Fiction podcast from The New Yorker magazine.

I'm Deborah Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.

This month, we're going to hear The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Dennis Johnson,

which appeared in the New Yorker in March of 2014.

As soon as I touched the receiver, I wondered if I'd regret this, if I was holding a mistake

in my hand, if I was pulling this mistake to my head and saying hello to it.

The story was chosen by Victor LaDotto, a playwright and fiction writer whose novels include

Matilda Savage, a winner of the Penn USA Award, and Honey,

which was published last year.

Hi, Victor.

Hi, Deborah.

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