It's been 50 years since Michael Lesy's influential cult classic Wisconsin Death Trip was published.A documentary text of found material, the book gathered prosaic historical photos of Wisconsin residents from the turn of the 20th century and paired them to haunting effect with fragmentary newspaper archives from the same time period reporting on often garish deaths what our critic Dwight Garner, evaluating the book for its anniversary, called horrific local news items that point, page by page, toward spiritual catastrophe.
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