The book ‘I Wished’ was written by Dennis Cooper. ‘I Wished’ is a novel and it is his 1st in ten years. The story is about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide, and how fiction can capture these things, and how it fails to capture them. The book contains appearances by Santa Claus, land artist James Turrell, sentient prairie dogs, John Wayne Gacy, Nick Drake, and George etc.