LADY-FAME; or, The Fluke A Sea Story In the bitter cold, black, predawn of Christmas Eve 1972, the commercial fishing vessel LADY-FAME was struck and capsized by a forty-foot rogue wave while crossing the Humboldt Bay bar. Contemporary artist Peter Santino, her first mate, wrote fifty thousand words during the months immediately following while drifting through the Amazonian jungle on a river boat: describing every thought and action that occurred during that sinking near-death experience; steering clear of embellishment and trickery; constraining himself in an attempt to create a record of...