Fact and fiction vie to tell the story of a young journalist bedeviled by the devil and seeking greater truth.Harper's Magazine - Benjamin MoserThe road novelor the road half-novelhas rarely been funnier or more appealing than it is in Jake Silverstein's Nothing Happened and Then It Did. Half-novel, because at the beginning of the book we learn that the chapters alternate between fact and fiction…but the distinction ceases to matter as one is swept into this account of postcollege purposelessness.