David Gessner is the author of ten books. His latest is Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth.

“The ambition got in my way at first. Because I wanted my stuff to be great, and it froze me up. But later on it was really helpful. I’m startled by the way people don’t, you know, admit [they care] … it seems unlikely people wouldn’t want to be immortal.”

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"Not Fuzz" (David Mark Simpson • Atavist • Jul 2017)
[01:00] Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth (Riverhead Books • 2017)
[02:00] readthissummer.com
[04:45] "No Disc-Respect" (Outside • Jun 2017)
[08:15] A Wild, Rank Place: One Year on Cape Cod (University Press of New England • 1997)
[08:30] Under the Devil’s Thumb (University of Arizona Press • 1999)
[11:00] Sick of Nature (University Press of New England • 2004)
[11:00] "Ultimate Glory" (Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour • Jan 2012)
[11:15] Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour
[13:00] All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West (W.W. Norton & Company • 2016)
[22:30] Return of the Osprey: A Season of Flight and Wonder (Ballantine • 2002)
[26:15] "Meet the Keatles" (Oxford American • Feb 2014)
[29:00] "After Hurricane Sandy, One Man Tries to Stop the Reconstruction" (Outside • Oct 2013)
[29:30] The Prophet of Dry Hill: Lessons From a Life in Nature (Beacon Press • 2005)
[30:15] "Those Who Write, Teach" (New York Times Magazine • Sep 2008)
[37:45] Nina de Gramont’s Website
[43:30] "This Is Your Brain on Nature" (National Geographic • Jan 2017)