In his new memoir, In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man, Tom Junod reckons with the myth and reality of his father, a man whose presence shaped everything, even in what went unsaid. In this conversation, he discusses masculinity, memory, and the challenge of telling the truth without losing the complexity of love.
I caught up with Junod via email to discuss fatherhood, performance, and the tension between who we remember and who we understand.
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