Marilyn Krysl is one of our most gifted, quirky, and delightful storytellers unpredictable, funny, and wildly inventive in wondrous ways. Her new collection shows her at the top of her form as she details the ordinary, the absurd, and the apocalyptic in outrageous and deeply affecting ways. Jay Neugeboren, author of "1940" and "News from the New American Diaspora" Marilyn Krysl s astonishing "Dinner with Osama" somehow finds the intersection between deep anguish at the state of the world and brilliant, caustic, and hilarious sociopolitical satire of America post-9/11. Its effrontery is...