Death to All Cheerleaders: The Early Works of the Greatest Writer of His or Any Other Generation

Before he was a bestselling humorist and a contributor to The New York Times, Esquire, Playboy, and MTV News, Marty Beckerman ("laugh-out-loud"--USA Today) was a sarcastic teenager from tropical Anchorage, Alaska, who had a column in the local newspaper and zero f***s to give. Week after week, he skewered high school rites of passage, decried adolescent superficiality, and chronicled his own hopeless attempts to get a date.

In 2000, at age 17, Beckerman collected his cynical tirades into a b...