"Beckerman uses the deft and subtle touch of a sledgehammer. ... If you can read [him] and not enjoy it, then there's a good chance you take yourself too seriously."
—Christian Lander, bestselling author of Stuff White People Like
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Bio
Marty Beckerman, 27, is the author of Dumbocracy, Generation S.L.U.T. and Death to All Cheerleaders. He has written for Playboy, Discover, Reason, Radar, Huffington Post, New York Press, Salon.com and the Daily Beast, and has been featured by the New York Times, the Atlantic, Gawker, MSNBC, ABC News, Fox News Channel and National Public Radio. Hunter S. Thompson once called him a "morbid little bastard," which Beckerman considers the greatest compliment of his career.
Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Beckerman lives in New York City, just one professional asshole amongst millions.
Books
Columns
= personal favorites
= legendary
- Spermboarded
- Hi, I'm Marty, and I'm a recovering Republican
- Kill Fatty: A Modestly Sized Proposal
- Worst Decade Ever
- Five Ways to Spend Your Time When You Get Fired: A Helpful Guide for the Newly Suicidal
- An interview with David Duchovny
- An interview with P.J. O'Rourke
- An interview with Kinky Friedman
- An Interview with Mark Ebner (Six Degrees of Paris Hilton)
- An Interview with Dossie Easton (The Ethical Slut)
- An Interview with Anna David (Party Girl)
- Making Peace with Nick McDonell
- Could William Shatner Defeat Kirk?
- Equality of Tyrants vs. Freedom of Bigots
- Are You Retarded for Saying "Retarded"?
- Atonement for Assholes
- Twitter Archive February-May 2009
- Twitter Archive June 2009
- Twitter Archive July 2009
- Twitter Archive August 2009
- Twitter Archive September 2009
- Twitter Archive October 2009
- Twitter Archive November 2009
- Twitter Archive December 2009
Age 25 | 2008
- McCainiac No More: Why This Maverick is Voting Obama
- Election Reflections 2008
- Live Blogging the First Day of Gay Marriage in California
- Barack Obama Eased My White Guilt For White Flight
- The Cunning Linguist: An Obituary for George Carlin
- Grumpy Old Man: An interview with Sissy Nation author John Strausbaugh
- My Guilty Pleasure: Paul McCartney's Solo Years
- Pork Barrel Politics
- Electoral Eugenics
- Primal Scream Therapy with Tortured Authors: Marty Beckerman vs. Matthue Roth
- My First Noel: Why Christmas Kicks the Living Shit Out of Hanukkah
- Help, I Broke My Dick!
- Picard for President: Why the (Other) Bald Captain of the Enterprise is a Better Leader than Bush
- Fuck the Homeless
- Marty vs. Mouse
- The Secrets of Successful Racism
- An Interview with Matt Taibbi
- Premature Education?
- The Freedom to Free Ball: On the Right to Bare Arse
- Dude, That's Schmucked Up!
- Why Libertarians Are Douche Bags
- Daze of Atonement: My Failed Quest for Forgiveness
- Youngsters of Zion: Fear and Kvetching in Jerusalem
- Paging Dr. Ruth
- A Review of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture
- I Love Alcohol: Lyrics to Never Recorded Song
- Agnostic Love Poem
- The Lair of Sodomy Blog (2007-2008)
Age 23 | 2006
- Marty Beckerman Gets Fucked in the Ass by His Girlfriend and the Dildo of Revenge
- Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Friend: A Very Short Story
- A Review of It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
- Why I'm Jealous of Ned Vizzini
- The Lair of Sodomy Blog (2006)
Age 22 | 2005
- GOParty Animals
- My Awkward Chat with Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho
- An interview with Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- The Lair of Sodomy Blog (2005)
Age 21 | 2004
- The Most Emo Thing Ever Written
- 2084: A Short Story
- George Bush and John Kerry, Suck My Fucking Cock
Age 20 | 2003
Age 19 | 2002
- Warmongers vs. Hippies
- Rocketman vs. Grocery Store
- All Panties to the Ground: A Review of Make Every Girl Want You
Age 18 | 2001
- Child Beauty Queens are Abhorrent, Their Parents Should Be Pulverized By Crazed Baboons, and Other Original Thoughts
- A Treatise On Cheap Erotica
- A Review of Look Into My Eyes: How to Use Hypnosis to Bring Out the Best in Your Sex Life
- A Review of The Kids Own XYZ of Love and Sex
- Marty Goes to College
Age 17 | 2000
- My Make-Out Session with Watermelon Tits
- Looking for Pussy and Finding Jesus Instead
- You Just Can't Lose When Jesus Is On Your Cheerleading Squad
- My Investigative Report On the Chippendales Male Revue (Or, "Hey, Look At All Those Heaving, Throbbing White Cocks!")
- Gun-Toting, Meat-Eating Males Agree: Real Men Enjoy Guns, Meat
- Groovy Times at Hemp Fest
- Disturbing News From Overseas: Girls Pee Too
- You Go, Yoga Yahoos
- I'm Staying Home On Prom Night Because a Girl Won't Go with Me Because I'm Just Too Hairy
- Rover Gets Buff
- Always Hate Gorks: My Visit to the Renaissance Fair
- You're Going to Hell for Trick-or-Treating: My Sickeningly Spiritual Evening at the Holy-Ween Carnival
- Marty vs. Censorship II
Age 16 | 1999
- Marty Beckerman Turns 16
- Smoking Pot: The First Time
- Be Cool
- ...And Boy, Are My Arms Tired!
- Hasidic Drug Ring: Un-Kosher Dealing
- How to Stop the Youth of America from Smoking Cigarettes: Make the Youth of America Smoke Cigarettes
- Stealing the Street Sign
- Vote for Me, Marty B.
- Rehab for a Chat Room Addict
- Elvis Maniacs
- One Day at the Gym and I Want to Die
- Safety First
- Plunging Toward Oblivion
- Abracadabra, Children Are Abominations
- Further Evidence: Children Are Abominations
- Marty vs. Censorship
- My Chat with Henry Rollins, Punk Rock Legend
Age 15 | 1998
- Alien Abduction: It Could Happen to You
- Meninism: The Only Cure for Anti-Male Sexism
- Prom Paranoia
- Stop Leo-Mania Before It's Too Late
- Drinking and Driving: Safer than Driving and Aging
- Body Piercing: The Cool Way to Bleed
- Poetry Sucks
- My Interview with God
- Finding God in Killer Cereal
- Devouring the Vege-Nazis
- Miss America
- The Martha Stewart Good Things Group
- Today's Teens Are Tomorrow's Geezers