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Now that I knew my father's secret, I kept it from him as he did from me

and joined my parents in their subterfuge.

The air of secrecy was the oxygen I breathed,

and the lies I told in school were fodder for the petty crimes I'd continue to

commit.

That's Griffin Dunn, actor, producer, director, writer, and author of The Friday Afternoon Club,

a family memoir.

Griffins is a story about growing up in a storied, storytelling family.

His father was the best-selling writer Dominic Dunn.

His aunt was none other than the great Joan Didiam.

His uncle was the writer John Gregory Dunn.

It was a family that lived at the intersection of Hollywood

fame and literary glory, a family who has had its share of shiny stardom, along with a heavy

dose of tragedy, ambition, privilege, ascents, and falls from grace. It is also, at its core, a story about secrets and how they shape us.

I'm Danny Shapiro, and this is family secrets, the secrets that are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep from ourselves.

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Miami Book Fair.

Tell me about the landscape of your childhood. Okay. at the Miami Book Fair.

Tell me about the landscape of your childhood.

Well, it was born in New York.

My father was in live television.

He was a stage manager for a show called Howdy Duty.

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