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These guys are actually Brooklynites-okay, one of the coauthors lives in Austin-who are freelance journalists. This was the only book they've written that I've actually purchased, but they might have written others.

Here's another pointed jab at their fellow slack-jaws:

It's sad to say, but looking at "GenEcch" through the pop culture that formed them, as well as the books, movies and music the generation has produced itself, seems to validate conservative old fart Allan Bloom's bellyaching about the accelerating vapidity of post-TV youth and their complete lack of depth, smarts, feeling or history. (The late Dr. Bloom was also correct when he said that rock n'roll moves to the beat of sexual intercourse, but that's another story.) If a modern-day Allen Ginsberg were to write a "Howl" for the age of Ecch, the minute he saw the best minds of the generation he'd drop the poesy and go back to the "schmatte" business. The Beat Generation went out looking for America; we're sitting at home chatting about it.

In the post-atomic years, after Kerouac and Elvis, the moral and intellectual fiber of American society really did begin to crumble. Now the members of "Generation Ecch" sit among the rubble, fiddling with the remote control, the only way they know to effect change.

The Making of Ecch; or, Baby Boom Bye-Bye.

Introduction to "Generation Ecch."