Bringing The World Home To You

© 2024 WUNC North Carolina Public Radio
120 Friday Center Dr
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919.445.9150 | 800.962.9862

Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

WUNC End of Year - Make your tax-deductible gift!

A Love Affair with Skateboarding

By Bret Anthony Johnston

Published January 17, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

Commentator Bret Anthony Johnston has been in love with skateboarding for half his life. He likens his passion to the intense rush you get from being in love.

Bret Anthony Johnston

Stories From This Author

Why Folks Didn't Evacuate Before Hurricane Ike

Bret Anthony Johnston

Everyone has been transfixed by images of Hurricane Ike: the flooding, the rain, the wind. It's not stupidity, insanity or even pride that keeps most people in their homes during a storm: It's hope.
In 'Quarantine,' a Great Story Mercilessly Retold

Bret Anthony Johnston

Bret Anthony Johnston says that although he's not particularly religious, Jim Crace's version of the Christ-in-the-desert tale "always leaves me in a state of rapture, as if I'd received a revelation of my own."
Why 'Lolita' Remains Shocking, And A Favorite

Bret Anthony Johnston

Author Bret Anthony Johnston offers his endorsement of the classic. Part of the genius in Vladimir Nabokov's tale of pedophilic love, says Johnston, is that the author makes his readers complicit.