A diverse compendium of gay writers, including Colm Toibin and Edmund White, on places, people and travels. Most of the impressionist essays touch on queer themes, a few are overtly sexual and many are not just good but terrific. Edited by Raphael Kadushin, a travel writer and humanities editor at the University of Wisconsin Press. The book was published to benefit the University of Wisconsin Press with the author's donating their royalties.  (TVL36, $19.95)