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02141cam a2200337 a 4500 001 C7E818C6253811DF9B7CADF9A7D7520A 003 SILO 005 20181009010727 008 100104s2010 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2009053127 020 $a 0393076466 (hardcover) 020 $a 9780393076462 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)449865572 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d IW9 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3619.I5527 $b N68 2010 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 22 100 1 $a Silverstein, Jake. 245 1 $a Nothing happened and then it did : $b a chronicle in fact and fiction / $c Jake Silverstein. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b W. W. Norton & Co., $c c2010. 300 $a xiv, 231 p. ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a 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, Jake Silverstein narrates a journey he undertook through the American Southwest and Mexico, looking to become a journalist. His picaresque travels are filled wtih 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; and 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. 600 10 $a Silverstein, Jake $x Travel $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Journalists $z United States $v Fiction. 941 $a 3 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720035050.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20151001041456.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20140812072939.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C7E818C6253811DF9B7CADF9A7D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IW9Initiate Another SILO Locator Search