Fresh Ink

June 18: Jake Silverstein, 8:30 p.m.—NEW EVENT!! 

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JAKE SILVERSTEIN—NEW EVENT!

Friday, June 18, 8:30 p.m.
C3 Theater

Don’t miss Jake Silverstein, editor of Texas Monthly, as he discusses his first book, Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction. Author Annie Dillard said, “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.” 

The book follows Silverstein when, in 1999 as a struggling young journalist, he decided to move to rural West Texas for truth, income, and a good story to jumpstart his career. He chose to live in a remote corner of the country because he wanted to be “where nothing was happening,” he writes, “so that when something did happen there would be no one around to write about it but me.” Part memoir, part novel, part history, Nothing Happened and Then It Did follows Silverstein to Far West Texas, where he dug for the bones of Ambrose Bierce, the famously misanthropic writer who disappeared in 1913; to the Louisiana swamps on a search for treasure buried by the pirate Jean Lafitte; to an amateur poetry contest in a Reno casino; and on the most dangerous road race the world has ever seen. His adventures ultimately become an attempt to understand the purpose of journalism and the nature of storytelling.

Jake Silverstein became Editor of Texas Monthly in 2008 and oversaw the magazine when it won a National Magazine Award For General Excellence last year. He is also a Contributing Editor to Harper’s Magazine. He has received a Fulbright Scholarship and a PEN/USA Journalism Award, and his work has appeared in the Best American Travel Writing anthology. He lives in Austin.

“Move over Tom Wolfe, a new New Journalist has entered the world of arts-and-letters with a flat-out hilarious road trip meditation along the U.S.–Mexican border. Jake Silverstein’s marvelous Nothing Happened and Then It Did is so perfectly crafted that it should be mandatory reading in college journalism classes. I’m envious of his talent.”—Douglas Brinkley

Tickets to Fresh Ink programs are included with paid admission to the Museum.
Order tickets in advance to guarantee your seat.

DMA Members: FREE
Adults: $10
Seniors 65+/Military: $7
Students: $5
Children Under 12: FREE 

ORDER ONLINE or call 214-922-1818

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