The Mythprint piece would have been sometime between the 1980s, probably after 1986, and 1995. I have all these issues, I just couldn't find the article on a brief perusal.
Gene Wolfe also wrote a book called The Castle of the Otter, which began life as an announcement that he had a book by that title in press, run by Locus which had somehow garbled the actual title, The Citadel of the Autarch. Wolfe then decided to make this true.
There was also a case of a composer who - if I recall the story correctly - was said in some encyclopedia to have written four string quartets when he'd in fact only written three. So he wrote a piece titled "String Quartet No. 4", but the joke was that it wasn't for string quartet at all.
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Gene Wolfe also wrote a book called The Castle of the Otter, which began life as an announcement that he had a book by that title in press, run by Locus which had somehow garbled the actual title, The Citadel of the Autarch. Wolfe then decided to make this true.
There was also a case of a composer who - if I recall the story correctly - was said in some encyclopedia to have written four string quartets when he'd in fact only written three. So he wrote a piece titled "String Quartet No. 4", but the joke was that it wasn't for string quartet at all.