story: “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden”
author: Denis Johnson
year: 2018
where: Le Brioche
note: This is the title story from Johnson’s collection and is an assigned reading for my workshop class in Aspen Words.
a line: “Rather than memorializing him, we found ourselves asking, ‘Who the hell was this guy?”
theme(s): Aging, death, career
samantha Neugebauer 