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Boots!

Where would we be without books?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timberd.

It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.

Welcome to Bookworm.

Today, I have a great surprise.

It was a great surprise for me, and I think it'll be a great surprise for you.

Sean Penn has written a novel.

The title of the novel is Bob Honey, who just do stuff,

and the book is published by a very good press named Atria.

The book is a transcendent apocalyptic satire.

It's wild. It's written to be the book of someone improvising a book. It's crazy. Sometimes it drops into poetry. Sometimes it uses vocabularies

too large for the moment.

It's constantly making you scratch your head, say, what is this?

I'm deep in the head of a human assassin, someone designed for assassination, and he often

doesn't know what he's thinking.

So we don't either.

And there are pages of the book that are like being caught between stations.

It's kind of amazing.

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