The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life

"The year 2021 is the year of skateboarding. The “rebel” pursuit was transformed into an Olympic sport. Thrasher magazine, the skateboarding’s bible, turned 40. And many have picked up skateboards for the first time. So The Most Fun Thing couldn’t have come at a better time. Kyle Beachy is a longtime skater and writing professor. His memoir, compiled from essays that span a decade, ponder the meaning of skateboarding. “What percentage of skateboarding, I wonder, is talking about skateboarding?” he writes. “Half, probably. There is such rich joy to be found in these debates without stakes.” Even as they “go nowhere, slowly.”"