talkin' 'bout my generation

In an article about Norman Mailer in the New York Times Book Review, Graydon Carter made an observation about American novelists that hit pretty close to home:    -- " . . . by the mid-80's {T]he brawling, womanizing train wreck that had characterized so many of the Lost Generation and post-war writers had gone out of style, replaced by weedy, thin-haired minimalists who had learned their craft at writers' colonies and lived in college towns teaching in master's programs."

I weakly protest that I wasn't always thin-haired.  Or thin-skinned.

Joe