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You know, there's been a recent rash of advice on the subject of how to be a man.

It's come from all corners. Maybe it's fueled by economic insecurities.

Maybe it's fueled by social change.

Rare among those doing the advising though has been

frankly much qualification in that area.

My guest, Glenn O'Brien, however, is flush with such qualifications.

He's been the style guy columnist in GQ magazine for a number of years now.

He's also had a distinguished career elsewhere in the magazine industry,

serving recently as editorial director of Brand Publications,

which publishes interview art in America and antiques among his many other jobs in magazines.

In the early 1980s, in fact, he served as one of the first editors and art directors of

interview, a job which came to him through his involvement in Andy Warhol's factory.

He was also the magazine's first music critic.

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