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TÓIBÍN,author of Long lsland  \n19 Best-Seller Lists  \n10 PROFITS,PROPHETS,COACHES,AND KINGS(When)Do Leaders Matter?  \n19 Editors'Choice  \n“Bajaniis arare,rarefind.”  \nBy Jared Diamond  \n20 Paperback Row  \nReviewed by Dan Jones  \n-RICHARD FORD,author o The Sportsoriter  \nCover illustration by Samplerman  \n“An irreducible talent”  \n-ANDRÉ ACIMAN,Nea York Times Book Reviea  \n0THER PRESS  \nwww.otherpress.com  \n# Letters\n\nAutofriction  \nTOTHE EDITOR:  \nIjust finished reading Alexandra Jacobs'sreview of\"Life of M,\"and I wholeheart-edly agree with her playful,spot-on take-down of the novel's portrait of an ac-tress's life.As a writer and longtimereader of experimental fiction,I thought Ihad seen it all:Gertrude Stein's experi-ments with automatic writing,VirginiaWoolf's stream of consciousness,evenDaniel Kraus's \"Angel Down,\"with itsreinvention of narrative history.But Cuskseems to venture into something elseentirely:the gradual demolition of char-acter itself.I 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