What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

is a memoir by Haruki Murakami in which he writes about his interest and participation in long-distance running. The book is translated by Philip Gabriel. Murakami started running in the early 1980s and since then has competed in over twenty marathons and an ultramarathon. The book's title was inspired by Raymond Carver's collection of short stories entitled What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Reception Reviews Review from The New York Times Review from The New York Sun Review from The Los Angeles Times Review from The Times Review from The Christian Science Monitor Review from The Daily Telegraph Review from The Daily Telegraph Review from the Stanford Social Innovation Review