Ever wonder what an earnest, deeply articulate English boomer would sound like after they were diagnosed with cancer? Wonder no more. An entire generation of over-educated college kids convinced themselves they were obviously immortal, and lit a cultural revolution to prove the point. The best made a living writing about it. Forty years later, they now confront their oh-so-real mortality with the same amount of nihilism and wit that drove their parents up the wall, back in the day.