![]() ![]() Coming from a bigger-name place, you sometimes just get the fire wall and it’s just not happening. And once inside the publishing world, it all gets even more mysterious and problematic. Street cred can be as mysterious and problematic as skateboarding itself. Get comfortable because there’s a lot to say here. But this said, to the best of my knowledge no other author has been praised by both Thrasher and the New Yorker.Īs you seem to have done more work for general publications, does this impact your ‘street credibility’ within the skate community? Have you done some work for skate magazines too? Despite all efforts, they won’t let me. For the Times, I’d been a reporter for Connie Rosenblum at the late great City Section, but that story, about Jay Adams, ran in Sports, which happened with a blind pitch to maybe? It was a while ago. For GQ, an editor named Dan Fierman set up an early vertical blog, and the first thing we did, about Richie Jackson, was picked up by the X-Games, which means it entered the ESPN Zone, which trendingwise means a lot. How did you end up working for them?Įach story is a different story. ![]() You have been writing about skateboarding for reputable publications such as the New Yorker, the New York Times and GQ. ![]()
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