David Gessner has been a font of creativity ever since the 1980s, when he published provocative political cartoons in that famous campus magazine, the Harvard Crimson. These days he’s a naturalist, a ...

If you mention Wallace Stegner or Edward Abbey to a reader in the Western United States — Utah, say, or Montana — you're likely to hear a strong opinion, and possibly even a personal anecdote, about ...

If you mention Wallace Stegner or Edward Abbey to a reader in the Western United States - Utah, say, or Montana - you're likely to hear a strong opinion, and possibly even a personal anecdote, about ...

Last year a Colorado rancher showed me a photograph he had taken from a small plane. It was of a dust cloud, thousands of feet high and many miles wide, rolling over the state’s eastern prairies ...

Channeling writers Wallace Stegner (1909%E2%80%931993) and Edward Abbey (1927%E2%80%931989) and their mutual love of the wide-open spaces of the American West ...

At the outset, Gessner tells readers that "[t]his is not a bird book"; indeed, it's more about what Gessner came to understand about himself by spending day after day studying one particular species ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Nearly a year after the famed owl died, a new book re-examines Flaco’s great escape and lasting impact on the city. David Gessner’s “The Book of Flaco: The World’s Most Famous ...

Wilmington writer David Gessner doesn't just hit the library when he writes a book. He hits the road. In "The Tarball Chronicles," he traveled much of the Gulf Coast to survey the short- and long-term ...

The world is burning and the seas are rising. How do we navigate this new age of extremes? David Gessner, author of the new book "A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World", joined us to hsare his ...

The story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo, captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of followers around the world. Flaco has been dubbed “the world’s most ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you mention Wallace Stegner or Edward Abbey to a reader in the West, you’re likely to hear a strong opinion, and possibly even a personal anecdote, about ...

A decade ago I happened upon David Gessner’s book of essays, “Sick of Nature,” at an environmental writing conference. Drawn to the title essay, I was fascinated by Gessner’s attempt to redefine ...