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The Most Fun Thing

By Kyle Beachy

The Most Fun Thing Philosophy

The Most Fun Thing

By Kyle Beachy

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In January 2012, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, an exploration of how Nike's corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. Beachy has since established himself as skate culture's freshest, most illuminating, at times most controversial voice, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime he first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood. What is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after the age of forty, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one's understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married? Contemplating these questions and more, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime-often overlooked, regularly maligned-whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a collection of the lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy-and what it continues to teach him as he struggles to find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2021-08-10
Publication Date:
2021-08-10
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1538754118
ISBN13:
9781538754115
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
415 g
Height:
143 cm
Width:
207 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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