Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction

by Jake Silverstein

Book Overview

In the great American tradition of funny road narratives from Mark Twain to Hunter S. Thompson a young journalist searches for his first big break down the lonesome highways of the Southwest and northern Mexico. Alternating chapters of fiction and nonfiction provide a hilarious account of Jake Silverstein s misadventures on the hunt for an elusive magazine article a journey that becomes a quest to understand the purpose of journalism and the nature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393339947
• ISBN13: 9780393339949
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"