Before there was Girls, Sex and the City or reality television, there was Linda Rosenkrantz’s racy novel Talk. Best known in Akron as the sitter for Chuck Close’s painting Linda, the real life Linda is well known for her fiction and non-fiction titles, ranging from baby name books to the history of the telegraph. Talk is a hilariously irreverent and racy testament to dialogue: the gossip, questioning, analysis, arguments, and revelations that make up our closest friendships.