Thanks to everyone who came to the successful Bali launch of “Imagining Gay Paradise.” All the books I took in were so quickly claimed that we couldn’t even stock the Periplus outlet at the Writers and Readers Festival — which, by the way, was an amazingly extensive set of multi-day panels, special events, other launches and, of course, writers’ parties. The interest in one of the book’s main characters, Walter Spies, remains strong … as it does in the main theme of the book: the search for gay home.