Marty Beckerman

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Marty Beckerman is an American

Daily Beast,[6] Discover, the Atlantic,[7] and other publications. He is a former editor at Esquire.[8][9]

Beckerman wrote his first book at age 16.[10] He has since published three books, including The Heming Way: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested, Retro-Sexual Legend Within... Just Like Papa!, a parody of Ernest Hemingway.

Notable works

Death to All Cheerleaders

In 2000, Beckerman independently published a selection of his Anchorage Daily News columns as Death to All Cheerleaders: One Adolescent Journalist's Cheerful Diatribe Against Teenage Plasticity.

Generation S.L.U.T.

In 2004, Generation S.L.U.T.: A Brutal Feel-Up Session with Today's Sex-Crazed Adolescent Populace, an exploration of the sex lives of modern teens. was published by Simon & Schuster and MTV Books.

When asked whether the book is a work of fiction or nonfiction, Beckerman replied that it is both. "The core of the book is the novella, but then I've got all the statistics, quotes from real kids, news clippings and other nonfiction elements. So I'm making the emotional case with my fictional characters, and the journalistic case with the hard numbers and quotes."[10]

Dumbocracy

In September 2008, the

Disinformation Company
published Beckerman's third book, Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right and Other American Idiots.

The Heming Way

In 2011, Beckerman published The Heming Way: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested, Retro-Sexual Legend Within... Just Like Papa! It received praise from

Saint Martin's Press
released an expanded edition in 2012.

Further reading

  • Beckerman, Marty. Death to All Cheerleaders: One Adolescent Journalist's Cheerful Diatribe Against Teenage Plasticity, Infected Press, 2000, 200 pages.
    ISBN 978-0-9700629-0-1
  • Beckerman, Marty. Generation S.L.U.T. Online, Simon & Schuster, 2004, 224 pages.
    ISBN 978-0-7434-8036-9
  • Beckerman, Marty. Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right and Other American Idiots The Disinformation Company, 2008, 224 pages. ASIN: B001NEKIGS
  • Beckerman, Marty. The Heming Way: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested, Retro-Sexual Legend Within, Just Like Papa!, Saint Martin's Press, 2012, 224 pages.

References

  1. ^ "Marty Beckerman is Stronger Than You". Popmatters.com. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  2. ^ "Men Have Outlived Our Usefulness". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "What Hemingway Would Think of the Internet". Wired.
  4. ^ "Marty Beckerman's Articles at Salon.com".
  5. ^ "Best Alcoholic Foods - Maxim".
  6. ^ "Marty Beckerman". The Daily Beast.
  7. ^ "'The Campaign': The Jokes Are Dumb, but So's Politics". The Atlantic. 10 August 2012.
  8. ^ "Marty Beckerman | Disinformation". Disinfo.com. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  9. ^ "Esquire Magazine – USA mens lifestyle news & opinion magazine". Mondotimes.com. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  10. ^ a b Michael Schaub. "An Interview with Marty Beckerman". Bookslut. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  11. ^ "'Papa' Hemingway still casts a long shadow". USA Today.
  12. ^ "News & Features".
  13. ^ "Gotham Group options 'Heming Way'". 6 July 2011.

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