Sean Penn And Stuart Dybek Talk About Penn S New Novel Which Neither Of Them Quite Understands

          The word “osmosis” was thrown around liberally last Thursday night, as if no one was quite sure     how Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff happened. Not even the novel’s author, Sean     Penn—a Hollywood A-lister for four decades—could offer a satisfactory     explanation.



          “You couldn’t possibly have thought this, but underneath—correct me if I’m     wrong—”



                  But the book seemed to create more questions than answers. Even the genre     was unclear. Dybek called it a book of “constant, nonstop invention” and a     present-tense dystopian novel.