The unknown radius
Sophie Yanow on the embodied practice of skateboarding and moving forward a millimetre at a time.
This is the third dispatch in Sensuous Skateboarding, a series from Dirt x Simple Magic that takes a look, whiff, listen, taste, and feel of skateboarding’s effect on the senses.
Sophie Yanow is an award-winning artist and writer whose work has been published by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review, The Nib, Drawn & Quarterly and more. Yanow’s work has been nominated for, among others, a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishing Triangle Award, an Ignatz Award and was longlisted for a Believer Book Award. Her comic The Contradictions won an Eisner Award, and her translation of Dominique Goblet’s Pretending is Lying won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation from the French. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and she currently teaches at the California College of the Arts in their MFA in Comics program.
