Embark on an erotic journey in search of spirit and gay sensuality

Postcards from Heartthrob Town: A Gay Man's Travel Tales is a passionate ride through physical and emotional landscapes straight to the heart of homoerotic desire. Award-winning author Gerard Wozek colors snapshots of memoir and short fiction with a poet's eye for detail, traveling outward to the edges of the planet while making a sojourn to the depths of his erotic core as he spins a collection of nineteen queer tales that evoke a sense of displacement—and a hunger for journey. Whether meandering around the desolate plains of his hometown in the American Midwest or trekking through the lurid trappings of underground Paris, Wozek describes not locale, but the spirit and feel of each place he visits as a gay man searching for new territory and the untamed terrain of the erotic body.

From "Paris Angels:"

I think of the letters that have brought me here to Paris. Your postcards of the city, dipped in ambergris. The promises of walks through the Tuilleries at dusk, the Bateau-Mouche rides at midnight, riz au lait at the Hotel Vendome. You write to tell me that this is where Fred Astaire stayed in 1936 after making the film "Swing Time" and my mind begins to fill with images of dancers in a plush ballroom, a Gershwin tune playing on the piano, and the tug of two bodies sparking together. I pass over the lines of your last letter which indicate the directions of our meeting point. Though we have never actually seen each other, we have held each other through our phone calls, our instant Internet chats, our correspondences, our thoughts. I write in my journal: "Paris angels, protect me. Protect this new love that aches to soar."

Postcards from Heartthrob Town: A Gay Man's Travel Tales uniquely captures the impulse of one gay man in his search for meaning in the world, redefining travel as both an inner pilgrimage and a journey through the United States and abroad.