Woody Allen's long-rumored memoir to hit bookshelves in April

“Apropos of Nothing” was first rejected by a number of publishing homes within the wake of the #MeToo motion, when allegations that Allen molested his then-7-year-old adopted daughter Dylan Farrow within the early 1990s resurfaced.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker was near reaching a multimillion publishing cope with Penguin in 2003, with the New York Occasions reporting that Allen held out for extra money.

Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette E book Group, acquired “Apropos of Nothing” in March 2019, regardless of renewed consideration to Farrow’s accusations in opposition to Allen in current months.

The publishing firm described the memoir as “a complete account of [Allen’s] life, each private {and professional},” by which the 84-year-old director chronicles “his work in movies, theater, tv, nightclubs, and print” in addition to “his relationships with household, mates, and the loves of his life.”

“Apropos of Nothing” will probably be launched in the US, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, and Spain in addition to different international locations.

Following the announcement, Dylan Farrow launched a press release by which she expresses her disappointment over Grand Central Publishing’s choice to launch the controversial memoir.

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“Hachette’s publishing of Woody Allen’s memoir is deeply upsetting to me personally and an utter betrayal of my brother [Ronan Farrow] whose courageous reporting, capitalized on by Hachette, gave voice to quite a few survivors of sexual assault by highly effective males. For the file, I used to be by no means contacted by any reality checkers to confirm the knowledge on this ‘memoir,’ demonstrating an egregious abdication of Hachette’s most elementary accountability,” she defined.

Final yr, Little, Brown and Firm notably revealed Ronan Farrow’s second guide, “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Defend Predators,” by which the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist recounts the challenges he confronted whereas investigating on former movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

Whereas Allen’s “Apropos of Nothing” will hit bookstores on April 7, St. Martin’s Publishing Group will launch the debut YA novel of Dylan Farrow on October 6.

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