My Summer of Ultimate–a Wrap-Up

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I have moved on to a new book (a novel about Cape Cod) but I wanted  to take a moment to do a wrap up of my summer of ultimate.  Also maybe to remind you what a nice present Ultimate Glory would make as the holidays approach. Give it to any and all of those relatives who never understood what the hell ultimate was. As the Washington Post put it: “An exploration of the questing desires of the young heart, “Ultimate Glory” should be recommended reading for every college student. A 20-something, unsure whether to listen to the yearnings of the soul, might find answers in Gessner’s chase of a flying plastic disc.”

Here’s the  full Washington Post Review. It’s title is “NEW HARVARD GRAD TELLS DAD: “NOW I’M GOING TO PLAY ULTIMATE FRISBEE.”

Here is No Disc-Respect, my article in Outside magazine about Ultimate and Beau Kittredge.

Here is the Slate podcast of Hang Up and Listen where I talk Ultimate.

Here is the great Wall Street Journal Review.

Sin the Fields is a wild, fun podcast from Ultiworld.

This is my Longform interview, where we touched on a lot of non-ultimate topics, including “immortality.”

Here’s a brief but fine review from Harvard magazine.

Here is the website I created, but honestly never visited much. But it has a very cool connection to Stu Beringer’s vintage photos, which you can also go to through UltiPhotos….

Here’s our Old and In the Way squad. We got a silver at old-guy Nationals in July and (hopefully) will be reuniting for Worlds.

Here is what the Rude Boys did to my book:

And here, once again, is the book trailer, edited by daughter Hadley.

This website, Big-Hearted Boy, asked me to create a playlist of the music that goes with my book.

And speaking of beautiful music, here are some pics of our post-game singalong (and book signing):

One with Dancin’ Dave Smith….

A Bunch of old guys…

From my reading in Maplewood:

“If Springsteen were an ultimate player he would have played for the ‘Boro.” Timba

Boulder:

Brookline:

My pardon. I can play in D.C. again!

My Dad  (Telluride):

San Francisco:

Thanks for everyone for coming out this summer. It was a blast.

Here is/was the tour, more or less: