{"product_id":"most-fun-thing-dispatches-from-a-skateboard-life-the","title":"Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life, The","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE 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 reveals fresh insights on marriage, love, loss, and American invention.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContemplating these questions and more, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime--often overlooked, regularly maligned--whose seeming simplicity conceals\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003euniversal 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\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eto find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband.","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39328093143140,"sku":"9781538754115","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/most-fun-thing-dispatches-from-a-skateboard-life-the","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}