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Can a Bad Man Be a Good Father?

Can a Bad Man Be a Good Father?

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The writer Tom Junod has spent a career crafting profiles for
men’s magazines like GQ and Esquire, often of famously
complicated men like Norman Mailer, Kevin Spacey and Tony Curtis.

But another man loomed behind Junod’s interest in these figures,
informing his own sense of masculinity and manhood: his father,
Lou.

Lou Junod was handsome, charismatic — a man who seemed like a
celebrity, even though he wasn’t famous. He was also mysterious,
a keeper of secrets that have continued to reverberate through
his son’s life.

On today’s episode, Michael Barbaro talks with Junod about his
new book, “In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be
a Man,” which is part memoir and part detective story, as well as
a powerful meditation on fatherhood.

On Today’s Episode:

Tom Junod is the author of “In the Days of My
Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man.”

Background Reading:

Tom Junod Would Like to Tell You About His Father

Art: Lou Junod with baby Tom in 1958.

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