What Tom Junod has said about My Father's Fashion Tips (GQ article)

2 quotes · 1 episode · Jun 21, 2026

Tom Junod, American magazine writer known for profiles in GQ and Esquire, author of the memoir "In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man", has been quoted on My Father's Fashion Tips (GQ article) 2 times in 1 episode of The Daily, most recently on June 21, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Junod says he wrote the GQ article as a gift meant to make his father the celebrity he never became.

    “The reason I did it was as a gift to him. I wanted to make him the celebrity that he never was”

    The Daily: Can a Bad Man Be a Good Father? (Jun 21, 2026) · Listen from 23:12

  • Junod says he withheld his father's private revelations from the GQ piece and published only grooming and dressing advice.

    “I spared him, and I put in the secrets that he wanted everybody to know. The secrets of grooming, the secrets of hygiene, the secrets of dressing”

    The Daily: Can a Bad Man Be a Good Father? (Jun 21, 2026) · Listen from 29:53

Episodes

  • Can a Bad Man Be a Good Father?

    The Daily · Jun 21, 2026 · 47 min

    Michael Barbaro talks with writer Tom Junod about his charismatic, philandering father Lou and the secret half-sister Junod uncovered after his father's death.

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