Linda Rosenkrantz’s Talk became the definitive work on twenty-something psychodrama when it was first published in 1968. Based on recordings made during a holiday to the Hamptons, three friends, Marsha, Emily and Vincent – all pseudonyms for Rosenkrantz and her posse – navigate a life of maddeningly inconsequential proportions. Of casual flings followed by subsequent psychoanalysis, both of which form the basis of three recurring monologues that battle over 200…
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