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

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."