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When Your Idea Is Actually a Book

A Conversation with John Hendrickson and Jonathan Segal

February 6, 2023

6:00 PM

NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
7th Floor Commons
20 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003

John Hendrickson, a senior editor at The Atlantic, and Jonathan Segal, a vice president and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf, will talk about John’s reported memoir Life on Delay: Making Peace With a Stutter. They will also discuss what makes an idea a magazine story versus a book. John wrote The Atlantic article “What Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to Say,” named one of the best stories of 2019 by Longform. His book grew out of that magazine article.

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John Hendrickson is a senior editor at The Atlantic and the author of Life on Delay: Making Peace With a Stutter. He previously wrote and edited for Rolling StoneEsquire, and The Denver Post. His Atlantic feature “What Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to Say” was named one of the best stories of 2019 by Longform. He lives in New York City with his wife.

Jonathan Segal is a vice president and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. Seven of the books he has published won Pulitzer Prizes.

Whitney Dangerfield, the Publications Director at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, will be moderating.

*This event is open to the public. Please register on Eventbrite, at the RSVP link above.

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