Goodbye, Wisconsin - Paperback

by Glenway Wescott (Author), Patrick Nathan (Introduction by)

Author Biography

Glenway Wescott was born in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, in 1901. He published poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, including the internationally acclaimed The Grandmothers (1927) and The Pilgrim Hawk (1940). He was openly gay, and he and his partner, Monroe Wheeler, lived in Europe before returning to the United States and living on a New Jersey farm. He died in 1987.

Patrick Nathan is the author of Image Control: Social Media, Fascism, and the Dismantling of Democracy (2021) and Some Hell (2018), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His new novel, The Future Was Color, appeared in June 2024, and was the Los Angeles Review of Books summer book club pick of that year. He also writes Entertainment, Weakly, a Substack newsletter about culture, technology, politics, and art. He lives in Minneapolis.