Sean Penn, "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff" (w/ Laura Lippman)

Sean Penn discusses his novel, "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff" with Laura Lippman at Politics and Prose on 4/15/18.

Ironically named and brilliantly drawn, Bob Honey, the protagonist of Penn's first novel, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, is bitter about his divorce, fed up with Tweets, and tired of being mined for Big Data. He has a day job selling septic tanks to Jehovah's Witnesses but he hires out as a contract killer for a secret government program that gets rid of the elderly, the infirm, and others who draw down society's limited resources. When a journalist starts asking questions, Honey isn't sure if he should feel threatened or take it as an opportunity to come clean. With the constant threat of terrorism in the air and an ever more volatile political landscape, anything could happen. Penn, the Academy Award-winning actor, writer, producer, and director, has created an unforgettably outrageous hero for our outrageous times.

Penn is in conversation with Laura Lippman, former Baltimore Sun reporter and New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels, including most recently Sunburn.

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