{"id":591,"date":"2004-02-13T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T13:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/?p=591"},"modified":"2004-02-13T08:05:18","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T13:05:18","slug":"you-may-be-hearing-about-this-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2004\/02\/13\/you-may-be-hearing-about-this-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"You may be hearing about this guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/tom.mangan.com\/new7q\/martybeckerman.htm\">I interviewed a 17-year-old hormonal Alaskan guy<\/a> named Marty Beckerman, who at that tender age imagined himself the next Dave Barry.  Now he&#8217;s 21, he&#8217;s got a new book out and reviewers are calling him a rough mix of Hunter S. Thompson and Lenny Bruce.<br \/>\n<P>Beckerman&#8217;s tome, to be released later this month by MTV Books, is called<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743471091\/deathtoallcheerl\/002-7314517-0368859\">&#8220;GENERATION S.L.U.T.<\/a> (sexually liberated urban teens): A Brutal Feel-Up Session With Today&#8217;s Sex-Crazed Adolescent Populace.&#8221;  He&#8217;s gotten praiseworthy blurbs from HST, Neal Pollack and a host of respectable people.<br \/>\n<P>I may have accidentally been among the first to interview The Next Big Thing In American Letters.  Wow.  One of Marty&#8217;s latest posts at his Web site is a bash to the face of East Cost literary hipsters. A highlight:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As everyone who&#8217;s anyone knows, books and albums are meant to be appreciated, not actually enjoyed. This is why Hipsters pay absolutely ridiculous rents to live in New York City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago I interviewed a 17-year-old hormonal Alaskan guy named Marty Beckerman, who at that tender age imagined himself the next Dave Barry. Now he&#8217;s 21, he&#8217;s got a new book out and reviewers are calling him a rough&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2004\/02\/13\/you-may-be-hearing-about-this-guy\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}