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03692aam a2200397 i 4500 001 6430C038F5B211EBBE1F64065AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210805010008 008 210316t20212021nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2021010623 020 $a 1538754118 020 $a 9781538754115 035 $a (OCoLC)1226564889 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OTP $d GK8 $d OCLCO $d OCL $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Beachy, Kyle, $e author. 245 14 $a The most fun thing : $b dispatches from a skateboard life / $c Kyle Beachy. 246 30 $a Dispatches from a skateboard life 250 $a First Edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Grand Central Publishing, $c [2021] 300 $a 301 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "In the tradition of Barbarian Days, THE MOST FUN THING is a memoir in essays of Kyle Beachy's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding-a search that unearthed fresh insights on marriage, love, loss, and American invention. 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. For a decade and counting, Beachy has been skate culture's freshest, most illuminating, at times most controversial voice, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime Beachy 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 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? Answering 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 life and collection of the varied lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy-what it continues to teach him as he struggles to find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Preface: On benches -- Part 1. For whom is the fun thing fun? -- You're not me -- On firsts -- A chronicle of doing it -- On direction -- The deep seams -- On bad kickflips -- A very large puzzle -- On this ugly world -- Making up legends in the era of zero-budget skateboarding -- Part 2. On the obvious -- Toward a poetics of skateboarding -- On nostalgia -- Pretend we haven't grown -- On narrative -- A most mundane perfection -- On how -- Clearing a space for meaning -- On younger -- "Nearly" -- On bafflement -- Part 3. On Bitul Zman -- Good Old Street League -- On the technology of a secret -- A day with Chaz Ortiz -- On Tampa -- Primitive progessivism -- On pushing boarders -- Seriously: Mark Suciu -- "The Burning Monk" -- Part 4. Seven small bafflements -- On animal play -- Inappropriate places -- On decisions -- The Dylan period -- Still -- Epilogue: Loveletters. 600 10 $a Beachy, Kyle. 650 0 $a Skateboarders $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Skateboarding $x History. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012022301.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221220010432.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630015059.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210805010053.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6430C038F5B211EBBE1F64065AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search