Nothing Happened and Then it Did: A Chronicle in Fact and FictionThe timing couldn't be better--as scandals erupt over journalists and memoirists who've cooked their books--for a work that explores our difficulty in separating fact and fiction, while explicitly demonstrating how they differ and what they share. In prose so fine and wry it makes the back of your neck prickle, Jake Silverstein narrates a journey he undertook through the American Southwest and Mexico, looking to become a journalist. His picaresque travels are filled with beguiling and hilarious characters: nineteenth-century author Ambrose Bierce; an unknown group of famous poets; a twenty-first-century treasure hunter in the Gulf of Mexico; an ex-Nazi mechanic shepherding an old Mexican road race; a stenographer who records every passing moment; and various incarnations of the trickster devil. As bold, ambitious, and funny as it is unconventional, Nothing Happened and Then It Did is a deep and lasting pleasure. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 3 |
Section 3 | 8 |
Section 4 | 11 |
Section 5 | 13 |
Section 6 | 17 |
Section 7 | 22 |
Section 8 | 26 |
Section 19 | 101 |
Section 20 | 104 |
Section 21 | 119 |
Section 22 | 127 |
Section 23 | 129 |
Section 24 | 137 |
Section 25 | 144 |
Section 26 | 145 |
Section 9 | 27 |
Section 10 | 39 |
Section 11 | 55 |
Section 12 | 57 |
Section 13 | 60 |
Section 14 | 63 |
Section 15 | 68 |
Section 16 | 77 |
Section 17 | 83 |
Section 18 | 93 |
Section 27 | 164 |
Section 28 | 171 |
Section 29 | 176 |
Section 30 | 188 |
Section 31 | 193 |
Section 32 | 206 |
Section 33 | 220 |
Section 34 | 223 |
Section 35 | 228 |
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Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction Jake Silverstein Limited preview - 2011 |
Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction Jake Silverstein No preview available - 2011 |
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