What Gives Us Our Names (illustrated edition) B.J. Novak and first pick of everything

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What Gives Us Our Names (illustrated edition) B.J. Novak and first pick of everythingHed gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you have already forgotten. For a canvas, he used not his own skin but his very life, spending his days as if he were made up of the most telling bits of other people. To do this, he learned to watch quietly and look deeply , past the busy surfaces until he could discern the colours beneath, the ones that did not change. One by one he would name them as he