Nothing Happened and Then It Did

"The 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.