3/02/2004 08:49:00 AM

Marty Beckerman | Meaningless sex! Rampant drug use! Teen debauchery!

Last week, MTV Books/Pocket Books released 'Generation S.L.U.T.,' the second book by 21-year-old writer Marty Beckerman.

...Beckerman has written a fictionalized story about self-loathing, bed-hopping, gang-raping high school students in Anchorage, Alaska, which occasionally morphs into a comic strip.

... It's enough to make parents either reconsider the educational potential of nunneries, or scratch their heads and wonder if we haven't heard this kind of alarmism before -- in less graphic terms, perhaps. Salon talked to Beckerman from his dorm room in Washington, and asked him to clarify a few things.

... And what is your next project, exactly?

"It's called 'Jew-boy Goes to Hell: Young America in World War III,' in which I visit Baghdad and Tehran and Kabul and Jerusalem and the West Bank. The publisher hasn't signed on the dotted line yet. It's a really expensive project. But it's about how the war on terror will affect Generation Y, because we care more about bongs and PlayStation than the future of planet earth."