Linda Rosenkrantz's laugh-out-loud, lascivious, gossip-soaked hybrid of novel and autobiographical screed is the Girls of the 1960s. Irresistable, irreverent, and intellectualy sharp, Talk is a beach read like no other.
Linda Rosenkrantz is an American author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including Telegram, a history of the telegraphic communication, and her memoir, My Life as a List: 207 Things About My (Bronx) Childhood, and the co-author of Gone Hollywood: The Movie Colony in the Golden Age. She was also the founding editor of Auction magazine, a long-time syndicated columnist, and a founder of the popular baby-naming site Nameberry.com. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
“Now reissued, it remains fresh, funny and disarming...The three
friends provide great entertainment even (or especially) in the
grips of competitive neuroses and misanthropy.” —John Williams,
The New York Times
″Talk is an era-defining text. With its unvarnished ‘realism’ and
its celebration of marginalized groups, Talk argues that the
everyday language of men and women is valuable, important, and
worthy of a book.” —The Millions
“A novel like this is what results when you bring a tape recorder
to the beach with your super smart friends….compulsively readable,
eternally relevant.”—Emily Temple, Flavorwire
“Rosenkrantz and her friends are living a hippie lifestyle before
the hippie lifestyle took hold, but they approach it as creative
intellectuals...There's a realness to the way they relate to one
another and the world.” —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
“Today the book reads well, as smart and up-to-date as an episode
of Girls or Broad City – after half a century it's still a terrific
beach read.”—Michael Silverblatt, KCRW's Bookworm
“Are New Yorkers the best talkers in the world? We’ve become
familiar now with this style of talk – smart, witty, ironic,
tangential, obsessing over trivia – through sitcoms like Friends;
but Rosenkratz was among the first to realise that it’s an art-form
in its own right.”—Brandon Robshaw, The Independent (UK)
“[Talk] makes for refreshingly tart summer reading.”—Parul Sehgal,
The New York Times
“Talk gave me a sizzling Warholian window into the smart-mouthed
freaky New York scene of the late 1960s. I was overwhelmed by a
desire to jump in a time machine.” —Simon Doonan, author of The
Asylum
“The rawest of raw material is hashed over in detail, but with such
openness and enthusiasm that one is more delighted and stimulated
than embarrassed or shocked.” —James Leo Herlihy, author of
Midnight Cowboy
“The pattern of self-revelation is far from coarse: it is eloquent
and convincing, with its insights suddenly stumbled upon, its
slender bridges of nervous sympathy that join each private island
to the threatening outside world.” —Norman Shrapnel, The
Guardian
“It is sometimes hard to remember just how radical Talk was when it
was published. Rosenkrantz’s innovative process of using
transcribed recorded conversation as dialogue introduced a level of
reality not unlike the choice to paint from photographs instead of
live models.” —Chuck Close
“Cool, astringent...something new, something beyond black humor or
pop fiction.” —The New Republic
“Utterly hip, utterly frank, utterly amoral.” —New Haven
Register
“The characters are defined by speech alone, and the talk is of a
kind that has been missing from literature...Miss Rosenkrantz’s
importance as a writer is to have shown, right away in her first
book, that exact data can go into a novel without the pressures of
conventional plot and character requirements.” —Vogue
"Talk is smart and funny and raunchy, and very very quotable.” —The
Toast
“Perfect for when you go to the beach alone then decide you could
use some company.”—Donald Stahl, Blouin Artinfo
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