USA TODAY Book Club Discussion: "Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter"

Join USA TODAY reporter David Oliver on "Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter" author John Hendrickson on Tuesday, February 28th, at 7 p.m. ET to discuss his new memoir.

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John Hendrickson stutters. It's a fact you glean by reading the title of his new memoir "Life on Delay: Making Peace With a Stutter" (Knopf, 272 pp., out now). But it's also something that took time to seriously sink in for the senior editor at The Atlantic. He wrote about his stutter – and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden's – in the magazine's January/February 2020 issue.

For Hendrickson, the book-writing process meant ravenously reflecting on his own life, including his early days in speech therapy, his journalism career and all the familial, platonic and romantic relationships in his life – not to mention interviewing many fellow stutterers.

"They all changed my life in individual ways," Hendrickson says over the phone. "The way I wrote the book was trying to let certain people who stutter help me illuminate and understand individual topics, from relationships to substance abuse, depression to creativity and art."

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