Jake Silverstein
Apr 29 2010 7:00 pm
“You’ll find pleasures on every page of this warm and funny book. I’ve never read anything like it. It is both wholly original and completely companionable. Jake Silverstein’s Nothing Happened and Then It Did is a masterful literary debut.”
In Jake Silverstein's Nothing Happened and Then It Did, fact and fiction vie to tell the story of a young journalist bedeviled by the devil and seeking greater truth. The 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, 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.
Jake Silverstein is the editor of Texas Monthly and a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. He lives in Austin, Texas. Nothing Happened and Then It Did is his first book.
Location:
- Street:
- Brazos Bookstore
- Additional:
- 2421 Bissonnet St
- City:
- Houston ,
- Province:
- Texas
- Postal Code:
- 77005-1451
- Country:
- United States
