“What is grace? I'm not certain; all I know is that my heart felt like a spike, and then, in that room,… — Tom Junod Grace Copy Share Image
Character actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman and James Gandolfini have found themselves getting more and more leading roles because they are permitted… — Tom Junod Actor Copy Share Image
Every celebrity has become a celebrity because of sex and money. But few celebrities like talking about either sex or money; they… — Tom Junod Celebrity Copy Share Image
When a cocker spaniel bites, it does so as a member of its species; it is never anything but a dog. When… — Tom Junod Animal Copy Share Image
His name was Fred Rogers. He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a time, and his parents, because they were wealthy,… — Tom Junod Home Copy Share Image
The only restaurants in which you're actually happy to be served your entree are the restaurants that serve entrees ungarlanded by Chef's… — Tom Junod Ambition Copy Share Image
Gluttony is harder than it looks. It's listed as a sin, as something you give in to, when really it's a skill,… — Tom Junod City Copy Share Image
There is certainly no want of journalistic ambition among the purveyors of what is now called 'long-form,' nor of novelistic technique brought… — Tom Junod Ambition Copy Share Image
We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence… — Tom Junod Attention span Copy Share Image
I met fred rogers in 1998, when 'Esquire' assigned me a story about him for a special issue on American heroes. I… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is… — Tom Junod Data Copy Share Image
I forget what I wore for my first encounter with Mark Zuckerberg. I know it wasn't a suit - that would have… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long… — Tom Junod Ambitious Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a long time ago, a man took off his jacket and put on a sweater. Then he took… — Tom Junod Fashion Copy Share Image
Of course, Google specializes in coming up with ideas, professes the highest ideals, and is dedicated to solving the world's problems. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The suits are as similar as uniforms, and yet you can tell their individual qualities by how they respond to movement -… — Tom Junod Fashion Copy Share Image
The fact is, you can't have Southern friends without eventually wanting to sing with them, and without eventually learning that the only… — Tom Junod Country Copy Share Image
We live in the golden age of character actors - in an age when actors who have done their time in character… — Tom Junod Actor Copy Share Image
My ten-year-old daughter loves gifts. She loves to give them and she loves to get them. She loves to give them when… — Tom Junod Children Copy Share Image
I cook so that there is no absence. I cook so that I am always there, even when I'm gone, even when… — Tom Junod Children Copy Share Image
Music subscriptions will eventually replace music collections because the digital universe is oriented against the idea of ownership - because music ownership… — Tom Junod Internet Copy Share Image
I never met Lou Reed, never was one of those journalists lucky enough to be the object of his derision, contempt, condescension,… — Tom Junod Contempt Copy Share Image
The two biggest meals of your life you don't have to cook and you don't get to eat. The first you don't… — Tom Junod Food Copy Share Image
Conservatives still attack feminism with the absurd notion that it makes its adherents less attractive to men; in truth, it is feminism… — Tom Junod Absurd Copy Share Image
And you understand something: that although, like all American eaters, you've been conditioned to think of the entree as the climax of… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Now, I love Israeli food, love 'Jerusalem: A Cookbook', love the homey exoticism, the fusion forged in the crucible of an eternally… — Tom Junod Crossroads Copy Share Image
For a long time, New Orleans was the classic-rock station of American cuisine, its reputation for flamboyance belying its playlist conservatism. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Cooking is, to me, the perfect fusion of generosity and selfishness, indeed the resolution of generosity and selfishness, the answer to my… — Tom Junod Cooking Copy Share Image
I'm a suit guy. I like wearing them for the sense of completion they offer. I like buying them for the sense… — Tom Junod Fashion Copy Share Image
I have about 25,000 songs on my computer and play them mostly on shuffle, which means that the songs I've played the… — Tom Junod Computer Copy Share Image
Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and… — Tom Junod Art Copy Share Image
There's an easy way to tell who won a fight, whether it occurs in a ring or in a schoolyard. Watch it… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I was not a fan. Moreover, I reveled in not being a fan, as though not being able to tolerate Robin Williams… — Tom Junod Being Copy Share Image
That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does… — Tom Junod Death Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation… — Tom Junod Being Copy Share Image
We are trained to distinguish between journalism that's short and long, that's responsible and irresponsible, that stands for the right values and… — Tom Junod Journalism Copy Share Image
Now, I'm fully aware that there is only one figure more pitiable, more ludicrous, more inherently ridiculous than a bad singer who… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The great character actors are now the actors whose work has the element of ritual sacrifice once claimed by the DeNiros of… — Tom Junod Actor Copy Share Image
