My Father's Fashion Tips (GQ article)

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My Father's Fashion Tips (GQ article) has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Daily. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.

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Tom JunodAmerican 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"

  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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.