The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Random House

Finished shortly before Johnson’s death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come.

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes Author: Patrick O'Donnell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

... The Largesse of the Sea Maiden : Stories . New York : Random . Juengel , Scott J. ( 2011 ) . Johnson , Denis . In : The Encyclopedia of Twentieth - Century Fiction ( ed . Brian W. Shaffer ) . Oxford : Wiley Blackwell . Blackwell ...

The Best American Short Stories 2015

The Best American Short Stories 2015 Author: T.C. Boyle
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

... The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” a story about stories, about how we're composed of them and how they comprise our personal mythologies. Johnson builds a portrait of his distressed narrator through the stories he tells and absorbs. At ...

New American Stories

New American Stories Author: Ben Marcus
Publisher: Granta Books

Ben Marcus. Denis Johnson: “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” by Denis Johnson, copyright © 2014 by Denis Johnson. (Originally published in The New Yorker, March 2014.) Reprinted by permission of Nicole Aragi, agent on behalf of Denis ...

A History of British, Irish and American Literature

A History of British, Irish and American Literature Author: Hans-Peter Wagner
Publisher: WVT (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier)

... The Largesse of the Sea Maiden (stories) Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive Former Democratic Vice-President Joe Biden elected President and, after a dramatic attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters ...

Freeman's Conclusions

Freeman's Conclusions Author: John Freeman
Publisher: Atlantic Books

... story collection, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, was published by Random House in January 2018 and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Lacy M. Johnson is a Houston-based professor, curator, activist ...

Biography of X

Biography of X Author: Catherine Lacey
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

... story “Triumph Over the Grave,” in The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories (New York: Random House, 2019), 101–50. 1989 “voracious for people”: Jean Stein, Edie: American Girl, ed. with George Plimpton (New York: Grove Press, 1994) ...

Peripheries: a Journal of Word, Image, and Sound, No. 6

Peripheries: a Journal of Word, Image, and Sound, No. 6 Author: Sherah Bloor
Publisher: Harvard University Press

... Largesse of the Sea Maiden? Read “Triumph Over the Grave.” That story is really about a friend of Denis's. Denis ... story, the character who is losing his memory. And that story is as good as anything that Denis has ever written. SB ...

The Upstairs Delicatessen

The Upstairs Delicatessen Author: Dwight Garner
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

... story of The Largesse of the Sea Maiden , Johnson's narrator buys what he calls two “ rat- dogs with everything . " His surprise discovery : " They were wonderful . I nearly ate the napkin . New York ! " The New Yorker journalist Jane ...

All the Living and the Dead

All the Living and the Dead Author: Hayley Campbell
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

... The Largesse of the Sea Maiden , Jonathan Cape , London , 2018 , in the short story Triumph Over the Grave , p . 121 . ' The edge of death and dying is around everything like a warm halo of light ' : David Wojnarowicz , Close to the ...