David Gessener
March 27, 2025
Tonight, Inquiry welcomes back DAVID GESSNER. He is a writer, journalist, professor at the University of North Carolina, and founder of Ecotone. He new book is a fascinating and complex piece about the owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo, and then flew and hunted in and around Central Park. People became obsessed with this eagle owl, and crowds swelled when ever it was spotted. Flaco the owl became an internet sensation, and the flash point for angry debate. Gessner’s book is THE BOOK OF FLACO: THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS BIRD.
