@newyorker.com calls IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN by @tomjunod.bsky.social “[A] bracing blend of memoir and detective story.” —The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

What My Father Did — and Didn't — Teach Me About Being a Man Expert storyteller Tom Junod's new book goes deep on masculinity, and living in the long shadow of a complicated parent.

"It’s a story about fathers and sons, but also about the stories we inherit, the ones we carry in silence, and what happens when we finally decide to tell them." via Katie Couric Media on @tomjunod.bsky.social's memoir. Read more: katiecouric.com/entertainmen...

It actually wasn’t bad!

Odds & Ends: March 20, 2026 Hoosiers. Our kids both play basketball, so we figured it was time to sit them down for this 1986 classic. Gene Hackman plays a new coach with a checkered past who takes over a tiny Indiana high schoo...

"The book is both touching and devastating — devastating in its revelations, and also in how dang well it’s written." @artofmanliness.bsky.social on @tomjunod.bsky.social's memoir, IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN: www.artofmanliness.com/odds-ends/od...

Tom Junod’s Family Secrets How an acclaimed magazine writer wrote his new memoir about his father, who had numerous affairs and may have sexually abused the author’s sister.

This interview with @tomjunod.bsky.social is brilliant, beautiful. And yes I want to read his new book. But the most extraordinary thing about it is what he ordered with his latte. I will never forget this and am having trouble believing it

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Tom Junod on Mr. Rogers & the "Mad Men"-Lib of His Father's Secret Life | PTFO YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

One of the great magazine writers ever, @tomjunod.bsky.social, set out to investigate his own father — the Bizarro Mr. Rogers. It was a test of how much a person really wants to find out: youtu.be/2CTJ-CVCtB0?...

Tom Junod Talks Fatherhood, New Book, Writing & More YouTube video by Art Eddy

This week's Art of Fatherhood podcast is w/ @tomjunod.bsky.social We talk #fatherhood, his new book, In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man, interviewing Fred Rogers & more. artoffatherhood.net/tom-junod-ta... #TomJunod #writer #author #newbook www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J_m...

Pub Day: Tom Junod, IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN A stunning family saga from one of America's best writers

Morning, y'all ... here's a Q&A with my friend @tomjunod.bsky.social about his stunning new memoir, IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN. It didn't take us long to go deep.

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Tom Junod Would Like to Tell You About His Father

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Tom Junod Would Like to Tell You About His Father

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Tom Junod Finally Reckons with What It Means to Be a Man In a long list of classic stories, the legendary magazine writer helped teach readers what masculinity looks like in the 21st century. To write his first book, he had to confront the man who first tau...

“There’s a recognition of people’s pain that you don’t have unless you’ve been through some extraordinary pain yourself,” @bronwendickey.bsky.social tells @johnhendrickson.bsky.social about @tomjunod.bsky.social.

10 New Books You Should Read in March From Christina Applegate's memoir to Tara Menon's "Under Water"

"The author recreates a lost era of Manhattan nightclubs, Hollywood parties, and tabloid headlines as he pieces together a complex love, beaming a light on today’s masculinity crisis." TIME on @tomjunod.bsky.social's upcoming memoir: time.com/7381423/best...

In other news, the first review of my book for @ugapress.bsky.social is out, courtesy @rachelwrighting.com. Really humbling to be mentioned in the same breath as a writer and reporter like @tomjunod.bsky.social

Read it at Arts ATL:

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You must join @tomjunod.bsky.social and me at @92ndstreety.bsky.social in March for a discussion about his magnificent new genre-defying memoir! Tickets here! www.92ny.org/event/tom-ju...

The Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2026 - B&N Reads This year, dive into a fascinating true story, read an in-depth memoir, learn something new about our natural world — or perhaps all of the above! Whichever topic piques your interest, check out the m...

Most anticipated nonfiction of 2026 from @barnesandnoble.com includes LONDON FALLING by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social and IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN by @tomjunod.bsky.social - Read more: www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/most-an...

The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026

2026 Nonfiction we can't wait for: LONDON FALLING by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social and IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN by @tomjunod.bsky.social. Read more via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...

Thank you, Jeffrey.

No, I appreciate it. What I’d really like is for Esquire to take down the paywall.

The Unforgotten: Two QBs and the game that tied them together forever Two boys played football 50 years apart. The game tied them together forever.

Catching up on some reading.

This elegy for two fallen high school football stars, a half-century apart, is a pinnacle of a type of journalism that has become woefully scarce. @tomjunod.bsky.social is a master of this form and I can't wait for his new book.

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Thanks Ren.

Hey Spencer. Glad you read this. Had you ever heard of Jay Kutner before you started reading!? I’m guessing you didn’t, though if you ever drove down Newbridge Road you almost certainly passed John Kutner Memorial Field.

The Unforgotten: Two QBs and the game that tied them together forever Two boys played football 50 years apart. The game tied them together forever.

Two quarterbacks played a half century apart. With his trademark lyrical prose, @tomjunod.bsky.social unspools the tragic stories of Jay Kutner and Caden Tellier, bound together by the game, forever. @dvnjr.bsky.social's favorite this week www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Thanks Barry.

Thank you, Spencer. Close to the bone, this one.

The Unforgotten: Two QBs and the game that tied them together forever Two boys played football 50 years apart. The game tied them together forever.

Many years ago, I was on the field when the star of our high school, Jay Kutner, suffered a terrible injury. His fate haunted me, and last summer I decided to to explore it. Jay’s story led me to the story of Caden Tellier and this @espn story, “The Unforgotten.” www.espn.com/cfl/story/_/...

This is the book I've been working on for the last ten years and, well, all my life. I'm proud of it, and proud to be published by @doubledaybooks.bsky.social.

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