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Chris Martin Reviews His Own Book
A joke? Human error? Dunno, but Powell’s has posted a review ostensibly from Rain Taxi in which Chris Martin–using rather cliched language–reviews his own book. (Either that, or anothe Chris Martin.)
Oddly, I can’t find any trace of this review on the Rain Taxi website, either in the print or online editions.
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Michael Lindgren wrote that review.
“American Music
by Chris Martin
The Blur of Happenstance
A Review by Michael Lindgren”
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Hey! I didn’t think my review was cliched!
It is in the print edition of Rain Taxi, Spring 2008, Vol. 13, No. 1. ml
Also you seem not to have looked very hard for “any trace of this review” since it is in the TOC in the RT website, here:
http://raintaxi.org/online/2008spring/print.shtml
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Just to clear the record on this one. Either Powell’s or Rain Taxi made an error in the byline that was corrected after I wrote the post (you can see the erroneous page in Google Cache).
As for no trace of the review–the Spring issue wasn’t available online until a couple weeks after I wrote this post, so there really was no trace of it when I looked for it.
As for the review–sorry, but the observations therein do sound cliched.
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