Linda Rosenkrantz

Friendships are built on chatter, on gossip, on revelations—on talk. Over the course of the summer of 1965, Linda Rosenkrantz taped conversations between three friends (two straight, one gay) on the cusp of thirty vacationing at the beach: Emily, an actor; Vince, a painter; and Marsha, a writer. The result was Talk, a novel in dialogue. The friends are ambitious, conflicted, jealous, petty, loving, funny, sex- and shrink-obsessed, and there's nothing they won't discuss. Topics covered include LSD, fathers, exes, lovers, abortions, S&M, sculpture, books, cats, and of course, each other. Talk was ahead of its time in recognizing the fascination and significance of nonfamily ties in contemporary life. It may be almost fifty years since Emily, Vince, and Marsha spent the season in East Hampton, but they wouldn't be out of place on the set of Girls or in the pages of a novel like Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be?

Talk

In 1974, Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he did on the day of December 18. The following day, Hujar met Rosenkrantz at her apartment on 94th street. She asked him in detail about the happenings of December 18 and tape-recorded their conversation. This book is a full transcript of that exchange, published for the first time since it was recorded 47 years ago.

Peter Hujar's Day

Its the summer of 1965 and Emily, Vincent, and Marsha are at the beach. The friends discuss sex, shrinks, psychedelics, sculpture, and S and M in an ongoing dialogue where anything goes and no topic is off limits.

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The best-selling authors of Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana offer the latest word in hip names for babies, providing a witty look at the top one hundred cool names, what not to name a baby, and celebrity, artist/literary, spiritual, foreign-word, and other unusual names. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Cool Names for Babies

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What to Name Your Baby Now

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The Definitive A-Z Guide to the Best and Worst in Baby Names by America's Leading Experts

The Last Word on First Names

Bringing an already celebrated baby-naming book up-to-date for a new batch of parents, the authors of Cool Names cover a range of classic names, unisex names, "good girl" names, biblical names, "far-out" names, and more that reflect the latest trends in baby-naming. Reprint.

An authoritative compendium of more than fifty thousand names offers parents a vast array of selections to help them find the perfect name for their new baby, along with information on meanings and derivations, celebrity baby names, international variations and new alternatives for popular names, ethnic names, helpful symbols, and more than two hundred lists. Original. 250,000 first printing.

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A whimsical, poignant, and candid memoir of growing up in a post-Depression Jewish Bronx neighborhood captures the sights, sounds, personalities, and other sensory impressions of the society that shaped her life on the eve of World War II. 12,500 first printing.

207 Things about My (Bronx) Childhood

My Life as a List

A guide to hip names for babies offers a look at the top one hundred cool names, as well as what not to name a baby, and celebrity, artist/literary, spiritual, foreign-word, and other unusual names.

Cool Names

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"The movie colony in the Golden Age"--Jacket subtitle.

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Lists traditional personal names popular in Ireland, including names from myths, legends, and literature

An Enlightened Guide to Irish Baby Naming

Beyond Shannon and Sean

Until 1988, nearly all baby-naming books were merely dictionaries: long, dull lists of names with their definitions. But then Beyond Jennifer & Jason-- the first enlightened guide to naming your baby-- was born, to tell parents-to-be what they really want to know: which names are hot, and which names are on their way up or down. Now the book that revolutionized baby naming is fully revised and filled with even more indispensable, up-to-the-minute advice. Instead of one long alphabetical list, Beyond Jennifer & Jason offers dozens of fully updated lists of names, including: * America's move from J names to K names * New naming inspiration from the family tree * Multicultural options to reflect almost any heritage * The trend one actress set when she took the advice of the first Beyond Jennifer & Jason With dozens of fresh, savvy lists of names, Beyond Jennifer & Jason gives parents the truly authoritative word on how to tell the good names from the bad, the classic from the passe, and the intriguingly unusual from the downright weird. A Selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club.

The New Enlightened Guide to Naming Your Baby

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From the authors of Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana comes a thorough, timely, and alphabetically organized guide to baby names and their meanings for parents-to-be. Reprint.

From Classic to Cool--The Very Last Word on First Names

Baby Names Now

An exploration of the past 150 years of history as reflected through telegrams is organized under such categories as "Parents and Children," "Hollywood," and "Lincoln in the Telegraph Office," and ranges from humorous personal notes to political commentary. 17,500 first printing.

Modern History as Told Through More Than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams

Telegram!

A comprehensive list of names from the Emerald Isle and their definitions, including those of fairies, mythological heroes, saints, celebrities, stars of the stage, and more, with inspirational tips and helpful naming advice. Original.

Cool Irish Names for Babies

"Friendships are built on chatter, on gossip, on revelations--on talk. Over the course of the summer of 1965, Linda Rosenkrantz taped conversations between three friends (two straight, one gay) on the cusp of thirty vacationing at the beach: Emily, an actor; Vince, a painter; and Marsha, a writer. The result was Talk, a novel in dialogue. The friends are ambitious, conflicted, jealous, petty, loving, funny, sex- and shrink-obsessed, and there's nothing they won't discuss. Topics covered include LSD, fathers, exes, lovers, abortions, S&M, sculpture, books, cats, and of course, each other. Talk was ahead of its time in recognizing the fascination and significance of nonfamily ties in contemporary life. It may be almost fifty years since Emily, Vince, and Marsha spent the season in East Hampton, but they wouldn't be out of place on the set of Girls or in the pages of a novel like Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be?"--

Linda Rosenkrantz

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