Life on delay : making peace with a stutter / John Hendrickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendrickson, John (Atlantic senior editor), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hendrickson, John (Atlantic senior editor)--Health.

Hendrickson, John.

Stutterers--Biography.

Stutterers.

Stuttering.

Stutterers--Maryland--Takoma Park--Biography.

Health.

Maryland--Takoma Park.

Medical Subjects:

Stuttering.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 255 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Summary:

"An intimate and revealing memoir of a lifelong struggle to speak"-- Provided by publisher.

In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Biden's decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral, reaching readers around the world and altering the course of Hendrickson's life. Overnight, he was forced to publicly confront an element of himself that still caused him great pain. He soon learned he wasn't alone with his feelings: strangers who stutter began sending him their own personal stories, something that continues to this day. Now, in this reported memoir, Hendrickson takes us deep inside the mind and heart of a stutterer as he sets out to answer lingering questions about himself and his condition that he was often too afraid to ask. In Life on Delay, Hendrickson writes candidly about bullying, substance abuse, depression, isolation, and other issues stutterers like him face daily. He explores the intricate family dynamics surrounding his own stutter and revisits key people from his past in unguarded interviews. Readers get an over-the-shoulder view of his childhood; his career as a journalist, which once seemed impossible; and his search for a romantic partner. Along the way, Hendrickson guides us through the evolution of speech therapy, the controversial quest for a "magic pill" to end stuttering, and the burgeoning self-help movement within the stuttering community. Beyond his own experiences, he shares portraits of fellow stutterers who have changed his life, and he writes about a pioneering doctor who is upending the field of speech therapy.

Contents:

Nothing in your hands

Dead air

The look

Balls and strikes

The fluency factor

Hard to explain

Joe

Liquid courage

Black waves

Kairos

Penn State, part 1

A hand full of wheel

Penn State, part 2

"Sir! What language do you speak?"

One-way west

Borrowed time

"I kind of leave my body"

Pink slips

The locked box

"Our bodies betray us

The Biden letters

"It just didn't deter me"

"A softer place to land"

"There is no yet"

Mom and dad

If not for you

Friends

Brothers.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Hendrickson, John. Life on delay

ISBN:

9780593319130

0593319133

OCLC:

1293450809