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Notable: It's Dad's day

 
Published June 17, 2015

Notable

It's Dad's day

Three new books look at fatherhood from different perspectives.

The Dadly Virtues: Adventures From the Worst Job You'll Ever Love (Templeton Press), edited by Jonathan V. Last, collects 18 mostly tongue-in-cheek essays on fatherhood by such conservative writers as P.J. O'Rourke, Andrew Ferguson and Joseph Epstein.

Every Father's Daughter: Twenty-four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers (McPherson and Co.), edited by Margaret McMullan, includes personal essays on the father-daughter bond by such eminent writers as Alice Munro, Jane Smiley and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada (Feiwel & Friends) by Jimmy Fallon is a charming picture book for dads to read to little ones, about fathers' efforts to make sure their kids put them first, by the host of The Tonight Show.

Colette Bancroft, Times book editor