Description: "A fast-paced tour through the history of the skateboard, from a surfer fad to a public nuisance to an Olympic sport, told by some of the world's best and most fascinating skaters"--
Brief description: Jonathan Russell Clark is a writer and critic living in the United States. He is the author of Skateboard in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series (2022) and An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom (2018). He has written about film for Esquire, LitHub, and Read It Forward. He has also written for the New York Times Book Review, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, and others.
Review Quotes:
"This book is super tiny and will fit in the back pocket of some too-big-for-you jeans. . . . If you were the smart kid in your high school English class, read Skateboard." --Jenkem Magazine
"Skateboard is zippy, poetic, and playful, yet grounded in history. And what a fascinating history it is! Clark moves with great and joyful agility between his profiles of pro-skaters and his meditations on the technologies that transformed skateboarding from a hobby into an artform." --Merve Emre, Associate Professor of English, University of Oxford, UK, and contributing writer at The New Yorker