David Gessner is the author of many books, including All the Wild That Remains and the forthcoming A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World. He teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he founded the journal Ecotone.
David Gessner
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The Angry Drunk
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. I WAKE IN A FOG AT MY mother-in-law’s house in northern New Continue reading
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The Land of the Blue Roofs
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. WE ARE FLYING INTO THE LAND OF BLUE ROOFS. In this place Continue reading
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Nature Writers to the Rescue!
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. I STAND ACCUSED. I have long been called a nature writer. I Continue reading
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Beneath the Ice
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. MY MOTHER IS DYING and the world is warming. Both occupy my Continue reading
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Future Air
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. MY DAUGHTER HADLEY is nineteen years old. I am sixty-one. (Yikes.) Continue reading
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Hurricane Diary
TODAY I, along with thousands of my neighbors, reluctantly begin the work of evacuation. This means bringing everything inside, boxing books and papers in plastic containers, carting more books and papers Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Edward Abbey’s FBI File
THE FILE BEGINS in 1947, when Abbey, just twenty and freshly back from serving in the army in Europe, posts a type-written notice on the bulletin board at the State Teacher’s College in Pennsylvania. Continue reading
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Nature Writing by the Numbers
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When You See a Skimmer
I dare you not to get excited when you see black skimmers scything along the shoreline. I dare you to stay in your own mumbling head, running around on the same Continue reading
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Learning to Surf
OUT JUST BEYOND the breaking waves they sit there bobbing, two groups of animals, avian and human, pelicans and surfers. As they rise and fall on humps of water, the pelicans Continue reading