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Competition

Songlines

20 May 2023

9:00 AM

20 May 2023

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3299, you were invited to supply a short story that takes as its title the title of a Beatles song.

Haruki Murakami used Beatles tracks from the album Rubber Soul as names for both his 1987 novel Norwegian Wood and a short story, ‘Drive My Car’. But the Japanese writer has confessed that he was never ‘a fervent fan’.

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