{"product_id":"talk-isbn-9781590178447","title":"Talk","description":"\u003ci\u003eTalk\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eTalk\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eTalk\u003c\/i\u003e remains fresh, lascivious, and laugh-out-loud funny nearly fifty years later.“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, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e″\u003ci\u003eTalk\u003c\/i\u003e is an era-defining text. With its unvarnished ‘realism’ and its celebration of marginalized groups, \u003ci\u003eTalk\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the everyday language of men and women is valuable, important, and worthy of a book.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Today the book reads well, as smart and up-to-date as an episode of \u003ci\u003eGirls\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eBroad City\u003c\/i\u003e – after half a century it's still a terrific beach read.”—Michael Silverblatt, \u003ci\u003eKCRW's Bookworm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eAre 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eTalk\u003c\/i\u003e] makes for refreshingly tart summer reading.”—Parul Sehgal, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“T\u003ci\u003ealk\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Asylum\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eMidnight Cowboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is sometimes hard to remember just how radical\u003ci\u003e Talk\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cool, astringent...something new, something beyond black humor or pop fiction.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Utterly hip, utterly frank, utterly amoral.” —\u003ci\u003eNew Haven Register\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “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.” —\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTalk\u003c\/i\u003e is smart and funny and raunchy, and very very quotable.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Toast\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perfect for when you go to the beach alone then decide you could use some company.”—Donald Stahl, \u003ci\u003eBlouin Artinfo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLinda Rosenkrantz\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction—including \u003ci\u003eTelegram\u003c\/i\u003e, a history of telegraphic communication and \u003ci\u003eMy Life as a List: 207 Things About My (Bronx) Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir—and is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eGone Hollywood: The Movie Colony in the Golden Age\u003c\/i\u003e.  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Koch\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bachelor’s Bride\u003c\/i\u003e, and of several nonfiction works: \u003ci\u003eStargazer: Andy Warhol’s World\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDouble Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzen­berg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of José Robles\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Library Writer’s Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City, where he is the director of the Peter Hujar Archive.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302897471717,"sku":"NP9781590178447","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590178447.jpg?v=1767737761","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/talk-isbn-9781590178447","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}