It is hard to go from cultural darling to elder statesman. That, essentially, is the takeaway from Alex Williams' piece in the New York Times reflecting upon how a bunch of formerly cool-kid Gen Xers feel about having one of their cohort, Paul Ryan, 42, running for vice president.
It seems we're always going on about the hows and whys and what's of the contemporary twentysomething, as evidenced in recent reactions to The New York Times' piece on Emma Koenig's blog to the many "thoughtful" or "navel-gazing" (or both) posts on Thought Catalog.
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