Here is Victor Ladato reading The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson.

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden.

Silences.

After dinner, nobody went home right away.

I think we’d enjoyed the meal so much we hoped Elaine would serve us the whole thing all over again.

These were people we’d gotten to know a little from Elaine’s volunteer work.

Nobody from my work, nobody from the ad agency.

His expansive spirit, his generosity, his eagerness to love, those are the things that influence me, not just as a writer, but as a person." And, you know, we've, we've talked about how he's not really, you know, all that loving to the people in his life, but he, he's looking for that feeling, and he's trying to give that feeling, this character, yeah?