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David Gessner is the author of ten books. His latest is Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth.\n\n \u201cThe 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\u2019m startled by the way people don\u2019t, you know, admit [they care] \u2026 it seems unlikely people wouldn\u2019t want to be immortal.\u201d\n\nThanks to Casper, Squarespace, and MailChimp for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@BDsCocktailHour\ndavidgessner.com\nGessner on Longform\n"Not Fuzz" (David Mark Simpson \u2022 Atavist \u2022 Jul 2017)\n[01:00] Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth (Riverhead Books \u2022 2017)\n[02:00] readthissummer.com\n[04:45] "No Disc-Respect" (Outside \u2022 Jun 2017)\n[08:15] A Wild, Rank Place: One Year on Cape Cod (University Press of New England \u2022 1997)\n[08:30] Under the Devil\u2019s Thumb (University of Arizona Press \u2022 1999)\n[11:00] Sick of Nature (University Press of New England \u2022 2004)\n[11:00] "Ultimate Glory" (Bill and Dave\u2019s Cocktail Hour \u2022 Jan 2012)\n[11:15] Bill and Dave\u2019s Cocktail Hour\n[13:00] All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West (W.W. Norton & Company \u2022 2016)\n[22:30] Return of the Osprey: A Season of Flight and Wonder (Ballantine \u2022 2002)\n[26:15] "Meet the Keatles" (Oxford American \u2022 Feb 2014)\n[29:00] "After Hurricane Sandy, One Man Tries to Stop the Reconstruction" (Outside \u2022 Oct 2013)\n[29:30] The Prophet of Dry Hill: Lessons From a Life in Nature (Beacon Press \u2022 2005)\n[30:15] "Those Who Write, Teach" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 Sep 2008)\n[37:45] Nina de Gramont\u2019s Website\n[43:30] "This Is Your Brain on Nature" (National Geographic \u2022 Jan 2017)\n\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices