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    Talk

    By Linda Rosenkrantz and Stephen Koch

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNYRB Classics
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9781590178454
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    Linda Rosenkrantz

    Linda Rosencrantz contributes articles to numerous magazines, writes a nationally syndicated column on collectables, and is the author of several books.

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    • 4/5
      To me this is performance art, from a period before that term was commonly used. Mediated performance art, even better. Mediated by Rosenkrantz's invisible hands, by the tape recorders as well. The 3 performers perform their hearts out, talking, as the title suggests. And lord do they talk, just exhausting to think about it. Interesting enough though, to get a view from almost 60 years ago, and to see how it differs from today (not so much...). As opposed to non-fiction, there is no way to get an update on what happens after. A pity that. Life is longer than 3 months in the hamptons...
    • 5/5
      This 1965 transcription, real and direct from a big ol' reel-to-reel tape recorder hauled around everywhere by the author, is one of the strangest books I've ever encountered. Linda's three friends - Emily, Marsha, and Vincent - white, with the cheap NYC rents of the day allowing for enough disposable income to make for entertaining lives - are all hanging out, hitting 30, and yakking. Their conversations, sometimes trivial and more often casually profound, are about love, sex, painting, LSD, literature, marriage, psychiatry, alcoholic friends, clothing, famous people, and their own destinies and lack of ambition, make up the entirety of the book. Born in 1935, they'd be 85 now, and what a gift it would be to meet them again and see how they turned out! 1965 being the midpoint of the upheaval of the '60s, big changes are erupting, and the women, art world hangers-on, still have one foot embedded in their parents' decades. Vincent is gay but not quite convinced that he shouldn’t sleep with Marsha. How did Linda know that these conversations needed to be scooped up for posterity? It's just a honey of a book - hilarious, annoying, cloying - but always fascinating and so singular that there's never been anything else like it.

      Quotes: "I want to be rich for one reason only: money."

      "We're each too many people for one mate to satisfy."

      "Elegance is a certain great sensual respect for the essence of things."

      "What's wrong with most adults is that they're judging whether or not their parents have been good to them in the terms of a child."

      "I love you because you're so sober when you're drunk"

      "I AM very moral. I'm scared to do anything wrong." "That's not moral, that's scared."