Vladimir Film Festival

The most fun thing

Barbariga / Fort Forno / 17 / 9 / 2021 / Talk

Kyle Beachy is the author of The Most Fun Thing (Grand Cent­ral, 2021), a hybrid of crit­ic­al and per­son­al writ­ing on skate­board­ing. He has writ­ten a nov­el, The Slide (Dial, 2009), and pub­lished short fic­tion in a num­ber of small but hon­or­able journ­als. His skate­board writ­ing has appeared in Thrash­er Magazine, The Par­is Review, Har­vard Review, The Point, The Chica­goan, Dead­spin, Push Peri­od­ic­al, Jen­kem, and more. He is an asso­ci­ate pro­fess­or of Eng­lish and Cre­at­ive Writ­ing at Roosevelt Uni­ver­sity, in Chicago.