On Thursday afternoon, dozens of employees of the publishing imprints Grand Central Publishing and Little, Brown staged a walkout to protest Grand Central’s decision to publish Woody Allen’s memoir, Apropos of Nothing, next month.
Both imprints are owned by Hachette Book Group (HBG), the same house that published journalist Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill. The walkout comes after Farrow announced on Tuesday that he felt he could no longer work with HBG after the Allen acquisition.
Farrow is Allen’s son with actress Mia Farrow; his sister, Dylan Farrow, has accused Allen of having sexually abused her as a child. Allen has long denied her allegations.