Tom Junod
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Why am I a writer in the first place?
And when I respond to the world, I am often responding through him, for better and for worse.
He taught me how to live, man.
and he gave me permission to enjoy life.
He might not have been a good man, but he was an elemental one.
And I feel his presence when I eat, when I drink, when I make love, when I breathe.
I couldn't have written this book without loving him.
And there's a part of me that doesn't want to say it.
That's where it is I am ambivalently still in love with my dad.
Yeah.
Sort of a regular guy.
I mean, we lived in a middle-class Long Island town.
Yeah.
I mean, I think you're onto something here.
Because...