Where have all the Hemingways gone?

So I used to think that Hemingway and Faulkner lived the greatest lives. These men and some others went out an experienced life and also wrote glorious novels along the way. And as I sit here drinking scotch and enjoying the burn of my post work out high, I feel like as great as it would be to follow these writers those days are over. Times change and the world turns and all that blah blah wordy nonsense that basically means things don't stay the same. As much fun as it would be to be that person it isn't applicable anymore and that's okay. The question I find myself wondering is who or what has taken the place of the greats. Is it as simple as taking in a libation after vigorous excessive? I feel like the next greats are most likely very different and that doesn't mean it is a bad thing. I mean some of the all time greats lived lives that resembled Charlie Sheen.