Talk is a hilariously irreverent and racy testament to dialogue - the gossip, questioning, analysis, arguments, and revelations that make up our closest friendships. Set in the summer of 1965, Emily, Vincent, and Marsha are at the beach. The trio are ambitious, artistic, hovering around thirty, and deeply and mercilessly invested in analyzing themselves along with everyone around them. They discuss  sex, shrinks, psychedelics, sculpture, and S&M in an ongoing narrative where anything goes, and no topic is off limits. These conversations were tape-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.

"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

Linda Rosenkrantz is the author of several books including Telegram!: Modern History as Told Through More than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams, her memoir, My Life as a List: 207 Things About My (Bronx) Childhood, and the co-author with Christopher Finch of Gone Hollywood: The Movie Colony in the Golden Age. She resides in Los Angeles and is a founder of the popular baby-naming site Nameberry.com.

Come meet Ms. Rosenkrantz Sunday afternoon, July 5th in the air-conditioned splendor of Arcana and celebrate the long overdue reappearance of her innovative, now-classic Summer read! If you would like to purchase a signed copy (or two!) of Talk but cannot attend, please click here, or call us at 310-458-1499.