In 2009, Haruki Murakami came out with What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir. While Carver’s was the first famous one, titles like this have been enjoying a heyday in the past decade. In its rhythmic lengthiness, the title hopes to suggest its author’s meditative, expert approach to the topic, but it is overused, often imprecise, and unimaginative. My issue with this sort of title is similar. ” In her husband’s lengthy phrase, Terri senses the quality of slurred speech. Terri, unwitting literary critic, queen of my heart! I share her annoyance whenever I see a title like, “What We Talk About When We Talk About. Don’t talk like you’re drunk if you’re not drunk.” As Mel launches into an anecdote, he says, “it ought to make us ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking about when we talk about love.” Immediately, Terri says: “Come on, now. Mel and Terri have been together for a while, and by now, their unhappiness peeks through their heroic courtship story. In this collection’s title story, two couples discuss love and relationships over a bottle of gin. Our story begins in 1989, with the publication of Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
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