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

€œThe road novel€•or the road half-novel€•has rarely been funnier or more appealing.€€•Benjamin Moser, Harper€s

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 of storytelling.