Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

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2021-01-01 Looking Back From the End of the World: Sheltering in Place with the Original Social DistancerAmerican Scholar2021-01-01
2021-01-01 The NewsHarvard Review Online2021-01-01
2021-01-01 The Thoreau I Didn’t KnowBoston Globe Magazine2021-01-01
2020-01-01 A Dream of RewildingSierra Magazine2020-01-01
2020-01-01 Are National Parks Really Our Best Idea?Outside on-line2020-01-01
2020-01-01 Monumental: Why Public Lands Are Still Worth Fighting ForThe Hill2020-01-01
2020-01-01 Taking Down TeddyAmerican Scholar2020-01-01
2020-01-01 The Move Biden Can Make To Reverse Centuries of Native American ExploitationWashington Post2020-01-01
2020-01-01 Trump Venerates Teddy Roosevelt but Roosevelt Would Have Hated TrumpWashington Post2020-01-01
2020-01-01 Trump Venerates Teddy Roosevelt but Roosevelt Would Have Hated TrumpWashington Post2020-01-01
2020-01-01 Trump’ Rhetoric About the Election Channels a Dark Episode From our Past.Washington Post2020-01-01
2016-01-01 Cocktails with Vultures.The Georgia Review2016-01-01
2016-01-01 The Taming of the Wild.American Scholar2016-01-01
2015-01-01 Ed Abbey’s FBI Files.Orion2015-01-01
2015-01-01 The Birds of British PetroleumAudubon2015-01-01
2015-01-01 The Professor and the PranksterTinhouse2015-01-01
2011-10-01 "Nature and Adaptation"OnEarth2011-10-01
2011-10-01 An excerpt from "My Green Manifesto"The Utne Reader2011-10-01
2011-04-01 "Free the Mississippi"2011-04-01
2010-07-01 "The Best Novel for Enflaming Youth"Oxford American2010-07-01
2008-12-01 "Loving the West to Death"Onearth Magazine2008-12-01
2008-09-01 "Those Who Teach, Write"New York Times Magazine2008-09-01
2008-05-01 “Life on the Edge: An Interview with Orrin Pilkey.”Onearth Magazine2008-05-01

Article

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2022-12-01 The Road to Paradise and Back, about hurricanes in the East and fires in the West:The American Scholar2022-12-01
2022-11-01 A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World: a monthly column for Orion magazine2022-11-01
2022-09-01 "Losing Everything." My introductory essay for Ecotone, “Safe Places,” was a notable essay in Best Am essays. https://ecotonemagazine.org/out-of-place/safe-places/2022-09-01
2019-01-01 "Skeptics"Ecotone2019-01-01
2015-01-01 "Beyond Flipper"Toad Suck Review2015-01-01
2015-01-01 Return of the ProphetOutside Magazine2015-01-01
2015-01-01 “Why Vernal, Utah Loves Oil.”OnEarth Magazine2015-01-01
2011-12-01 "Spoiling Walden: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cape Wind"OnEarth2011-12-01
2011-04-01 "Sick of Oil"OnEarth2011-04-01
2009-10-01 "A New Climate for Literature"Onearth2009-10-01
“Safe Places" https://ecotonemagazine.org/out-of-place/safe-places/Ecotone https://ecotonemagazine.org/out-of-place/safe-places/

Book

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2021-01-01 Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis.  Torrey House Press. 2021-01-01
2020-01-01 Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness.  Simon & Schuster. 2020-01-01
2017-01-01 Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession and My wild Youth.  Riverhead Books. 2017-01-01
2015-01-01 All the Wild That Remains: Following Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey through the American West.  W.W. Norton and Company. 2015-01-01
2011-09-01 "The Tarball Chronicles".  Milkweed. 2011-09-01
2011-07-01 "My Green Manifesto".  Milkweed Editions. 2011-07-01

Chapter

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2010-03-01 "Learning to Surf," a chapter in book titled "Flights of Imagination: Extraordinary Writing About Birds".  . 2010-03-01

Document

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2013-01-01 Brant's RequiemOrion. 2013-01-01
2009-04-01 “Wild and Crazy Guy.”the New York Times. 2009-04-01

Presentations

Full Name

  • David Gessner