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Beachy, Kyle, author.

The most fun thing : dispatches from a skateboard life / Kyle Beachy.

First edition.

New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2021.

ix, 301 pages ; 22 cm

"In the tradition of Barbarian Days, [this book] 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 ... [It] 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Beachy, Kyle.

Skateboarders -- United States -- Biography.

Skateboarding -- History.

Autobiographies.

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 -- Loveletters.

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