Hachette won’t publish Woody Allen’s memoir ‘Apropos of Nothing,’ after a week of backlash. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-06 21:44:58 UTC ]
On Friday, Woody Allen's publisher, Hachette Books Group, decided to cancel the planned release of his memoir Apropos of Nothing. The decision came after dozens employees staged a walkout in protest of the book's publication. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2020-03-06 20:54:52 UTC ]
Ronan Farrow also said he would cut ties with Hachette Book Group over the decision to publish Apropos of Nothing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-03-06 20:49:10 UTC ]
On Friday, a day after a walkout, Hachette announced it will return all rights to the author. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-06 20:46:29 UTC ]
In a statement, Hachette Book Group has announced that it has cancelled its publication of Woody Allen’s memoir, Apropos of Nothing, which was originally scheduled for release in April 2020. Hachette will return all rights to the author. “The decision to cancel Mr. Allen’s book was a difficult... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-06 20:10:39 UTC ]
The publisher’s announcement that it will publish the filmmaker’s memoir has drawn criticism, this time from its own employees. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-05 22:53:21 UTC ]
Today, employees at the Little, Brown and Company imprint of the Hachette Book Group have organized a walkout in protest of the company’s announcement that it will be moving forward with the publication of Woody Allen’s memoir, Apropos of Nothing. Allen’s memoir was purchased by Hachette’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-05 21:02:55 UTC ]
HQ has acquired the first adult memoir from children’s author Anna Wilson, billed as a “searing” account of autism and ageing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-05 06:36:10 UTC ]
The publication date moves to May for the controversial White House memoir of Donald Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton. The post Report: Simon & Schuster’s Date for John Bolton’s Book Is Now in May appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-03-04 15:00:09 UTC ]
Seven Dials has acquired the "explosive" story an ordinary man who went to Syria as an international volunteer to fight alongside the Kurdish YPG against ISIS. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-04 14:20:59 UTC ]
Mirror Books will publish new memoir about the only living sisters to have signed the Official Secrets Act during the Second World War. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-04 12:36:25 UTC ]
William Collins has landed the “riveting and candid” memoir of Kim Darroch, Britain’s Ambassador to the US during Donald Trump’s White House reign. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-04 06:17:07 UTC ]
Writer known for #MeToo investigations – whose sister says Allen abused her – suggests he can no longer work with HachetteRonan Farrow has distanced himself from the publisher of his latest book after the company announced plans to publish a memoir by his father, Woody Allen, saying the move... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-03-04 03:04:40 UTC ]
Dylan Farrow slammed Woody Allen's upcoming memoir, "Apropos of Nothing," calling it "deeply unsettling." She accused her adoptive father of sexual abuse in the 1990s. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-03 18:48:28 UTC ]
HarperNonFiction has won a six-way auction for the "unflinching" memoir of Vanessa Frake, the former governor of one of Britain’s most notorious prisons. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-03 05:40:46 UTC ]
Transworld has pre-empted a memoir by Jewish Dutch resistance fighter and Ravensbruck survivor Selma van der Perre. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-02 21:39:29 UTC ]
The director allegedly sexually abused his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow when she was 7 years old. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-03-02 21:29:55 UTC ]
Here’s an odd and unpleasant piece of news: with today’s announcement that Woody Allen’s long-rumored memoir is no longer just a rumor, and will in fact be hitting shelves next month, Allen and his estranged son Ronan Farrow—who has dedicated much of his journalistic career to uncovering... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-02 20:44:05 UTC ]
A memoir by Woody Allen, rumored for years and once thought unpublishable in the #MeToo era, is coming out next month. Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, announced Monday... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2020-03-02 19:41:59 UTC ]
This week's book events are fully locavore: Lynell George's essays on the city's rich cultural tapestry; Erin Khar's memoir of teen addiction in the mid-1980s; Thomas Pynchon's Cali counterculture noir; a debut novel from Los Angeles Review of Books founder Tom Lutz; and a visit from Pod Save... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-28 19:52:47 UTC ]