AIS is excited to announce our first social outing in Los Angeles! Our office in Santa Monica is pairing with the Santa Monica chapter of the National Stuttering Association to invite friends on a casual excursion to Skylight Books, in Los Feliz, for the launch party of the new book by writer John Hendrickson.
Hendrickson, a person who stutters, is a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine. In the fall of 2019, he 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.
You can find full details of the event here:
https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-john-hendrickson-presents-life-delay-dave-holmes
John Hendrickson presents LIFE ON DELAY, with moderator Dave Holmes
Saturday, January 28, 2023
5:00pm
Event address:
1818 N Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027