Hachette employees stage memories of Woody Allen

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1:00 p.m. PST 3/5/2020

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Sharareh Drury

The protest follows Ronan Farrow declaring that he will no longer work with the publisher, while pushing the company to check Allen's memories.

Employees of the Hachette Book Group of multiple fingerprints organized an outing Thursday to protest against his decision to publish the next memoirs of Woody Allen.

"We respect and understand the views of our employees who have decided to voice their concerns regarding the publication of this book. We will engage our staff in further discussion on this matter as soon as possible," said Hachette Book Group. The Hollywood Reporter.

A tweet with a photo from the start, 75 employees have so far left their offices. Union harper collins tweeted he stands in solidarity with Hachette employees, writing "collective action is the way we hold the powerful accountable.

Grand Central Publishing, a print of Hachette, announced Monday that it would publish Allen's next memoirs About nothing April 7. After the announcement, Ronan Farrow said he would end his relationship with Hachette, having previously worked with the publisher on his book. Catch and kill.

Farrow, Allen's son, has repeatedly stated that he believes allegations made by his sister Dylan Farrow that the filmmaker had sexually assaulted her when she was a child.

From the walkout, Dylan went to Twitter to thank those who showed solidarity. "Incredibly outdated and incredibly grateful for the solidarity shown by @HachetteUS and @littlebrown today. From the bottom of my heart, thank you, ”she says. tweeted.

"I was disappointed to learn from press reports that Hachette, my publisher, acquired the memories of Woody Allen after other big publishers refused to do so and hid the decision of me and his own employees while we were working on " Catch and kill "A book on how powerful men, including Woody Allen, avoid responsibility for sexual abuse", the investigative reporter tweeted Tuesday. Later in the statement, he said that he told the publisher that he could no longer "conscientiously" work with the company.

Farrow continued in his tweet that Hachette did not check the book. "My sister Dylan was never contacted to respond to any denial or misrepresentation of the abuse she suffered at the hands of Woody Allen – a credible allegation, sustained for nearly three decades, supported by stories and contemporary evidence, "he wrote. "It is extremely unprofessional in several obvious directions for Hachette to behave this way. But it also shows a lack of ethics and compassion for victims of sexual abuse, regardless of any personal connection or abuse. of trust here. "

Farrow ended his statement by declaring that he would no longer work with the publisher and encouraged Hachette to verify Allen's account.

THR reached out to Hachette and his fingerprints for comment.

Dylan Farrow also Posted a statement Tuesday on Twitter, writing that Hachette's decision is "deeply moving for me personally and a total betrayal of my brother." She also pointed to a gap between the lack of fact-checking of Allen's memoirs and the "endless review" and "thorough fact-checking" that hers underwent before being published. "Hachette's complicity in this regard should be called for what it is and they should answer for it," she added.

In Catch and kill, published by Hachette's Little, Brown and Company, Farrow details his initial reluctance to fully commit to or publicly speak about his sister's long-standing allegations about their father. Journalist broke his silence in a column in 2016 THR, writing, "I believe my sister. This has always been true as a brother who trusted her and, even at 5 years old, was disturbed by the strange behavior of our father around her."