Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing

The result is an anthology of dynamic writing that will motivate readers to book their next flight, or at least get them dreaming of other places. And the places are legion. Mack Friedman sets off into the deceptively butch wilds of Alaska. Robert Tewdwr Moss tracks through the back roads of Syria and his own version of Arabian Nights. Colm Toibin discovers a Spanish Brigadoon and Edward Field drinks tea with Paul Bowles. For Wayne Koestenbaum Vienna is both a city of high low culture, and for Philip Gambone Asia becomes a place of second chances. Raphael Kadushin settles into the ethereal sun of a Dutch spring, Michael Lowenthal remembers a jarring encounter in the Scottish Highlands, and Tim Miller tallies the 1001 beds he has slept in all over the world. And Edmund White, in a classic of elegiac travel writing, recounts his harrowing drive through the Sahara with a man he loved.

Contributors: Brian Bouldrey, Mitch Cullin, Edward Field, Mack Friedman, Philip Gambone, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Raphael Kadushin, Wayne Koestenbaum, Matthew Link, Michael Lowenthal, Alistair McCartney, J. S. Marcus, David Masello, Tim Miller, Robert Tewdwr Moss, Boyer Rickel, Bruce Shenitz, Colm Toibin, Edmund White