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Kyle Beachy

Goodreads Author

Born

in Ithaca, NY, The United States

Website

https://linktr.ee/kbeachy

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Philosophy

Influences

www.themostfunthing.com ...more

Member Since

May 2007

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Kyle Beachy‘s first novel, The Slide (Dial Press, 2009), won The Chicago Reader’s Best Book by a Chicago Author reader’s choice award for the year. His short fiction has appeared in journals including Fanzine, Pank, Hobart, Juked, The Collagist, 5 Chapters, and others.His writing on skateboarding has appeared in The Point, The American Reader, The Chicagoan, Free Skateboard Magazine (UK & Europe), The Skateboard Mag (US), Jenkem, Deadspin, and The Classical. He teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago and is a co-host on the skateboarding podcast Vent City with pro skater Ryan Lay and others.

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Average rating: 3.67 · 704 ratings · 114 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Slide 3.56 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life 3.86 avg rating — 222 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books by Jeff Martin, C. Max Magee (Editor), Kyle Beachy (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.61 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MAKE X by Joel Craig (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eula Biss (Foreword), Chris Wiewiora (Contributor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kyle Beachy's Blog

Catching Incrementally Up

It took a radio interview for me to update the place, clean up some cobwebs. Apologies for absence, and I’m happy to share the following updates.

Some stories! Short ones. First, at Juked, a short story called “Allegory,” which got a nice longlist nod for this year’s Wigleaf Top 50. Here too is “Flicker,” one of a batch of Monkeybicycle one-sentence stories.

Some essays! I have been lucky to find op

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“I told her running away from your problems doesn't solve anything. Really it just hurts the people who count on you.”
― Kyle Beachy, The Slide

tags: life-lessons, problems, running, the-slide

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“I fell, as they say. Into love. I practiced saying it, first to myself, in my head. I believed in it. I did. I thought love and I bought it completely. I was excited by my belief but was careful not to let this excitement influence or manipulate the belief in any way. The belief had to be pure. So I said it to her, I love you, and she said it back. And this was our contract. We treated the words seriously and respected that they came with implications.”
― Kyle Beachy, The Slide

tags: kindlehighlight

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“One of these people was a girl who exemplified everything I could ever come up with to want. We grew very close very quickly and revealed dreams and compared fears and mocked gently and occasionally told lies, but nothing bad. The sex, I’m sorry, Dad, but the sex was unlike anything I believed might someplace exist. I remember lying with her in bed and touching her thigh and thinking, My God. This is the reason I grew hands in the first place.”
― Kyle Beachy, The Slide

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