Author Event: Kyle Beachy with Special Guests

2523 North Kedzie Boulevard,Chicago IL 60647

10 August, 2021

Description

Join us as we welcome Kyle Beachy in celebration of the release of his latest book, The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life A decade ago, novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, examining how Nike’s corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. One of skating’s freshest, most illuminating, and, at times, most controversial voices, Beachy writes candidly about the popular and fast-changing activity he first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood. What is skateboarding? 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 older and intimate relationships? The Most Fun Thing follows Beachy’s journey to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and how this search unexpectedly led to insights on marriage, love, loss, and American invention. Kyle Beachy's first novel, The Slide, won The Chicago Reader's Best Book reader's choice award. His short fiction has appeared in Fanzine, Pank, Hobart, Juked, The Collagist, and elsewhere. His writing on skateboarding has appeared in The Point, The American Reader, The Chicagoan, Free Skateboard Magazine, The Skateboard Mag, Jenkem, Deadspin, and The Classical. He teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago and co-hosts the skateboarding podcast Vent City with pro skater Ryan Lay and others. Find him on Twitter @kylebeachy.