# Talk - Paperback

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by **Linda Rosenkrantz** (Author), **Stephen Koch** (Introduction by)

_Talk_ is a hilariously irreverent and racy testament to dialogue: the gossip, questioning, analysis, arguments, and revelations that make up our closest friendships. It's the summer of 1965 and Emily, Vincent, and Marsha are at the beach. All three are ambitious and artistic; all are hovering around thirty; and all are deeply and mercilessly invested in analyzing themselves and everyone around them. The friends discuss sex, shrinks, psychedelics, sculpture, and S and M in an ongoing dialogue where anything goes and no topic is off limits. _Talk_ is the result of these conversations, recorded by Linda Rosenkrantz and transformed into a novel whose form and content put it well ahead of its time. Controversial upon its first publication in 1968, _Talk_ remains fresh, lascivious, and laugh-out-loud funny nearly fifty years later.

### Author Biography

**Linda Rosenkrantz** is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction--including _Telegram_, a history of telegraphic communication and _My Life as a List: 207 Things About My (Bronx) Childhood_, a memoir--and is the co-author of _Gone Hollywood: The Movie Colony in the Golden Age_. A longtime syndicated columnist, she was the founding editor of Auction magazine, as well as a founder of the popular baby-­naming site Nameberry.com. Rosenkrantz was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in Los Angeles.

**Stephen Koch** is the author of two novels, _Night Watch_ and _The Bachelor's Bride_, and of several nonfiction works: _Stargazer: Andy Warhol's World_; _Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzen­berg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals_; _The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of José Robles_; and _The Modern Library Writer's Workshop_. He lives in New York City, where he is the director of the Peter Hujar Archive.

**Number of Pages:** 240

**Dimensions:** 0.5 x 8 x 5.1 IN

**Publication Date:** July 07, 2015

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