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Woody Allen bibliography. Woody Allen at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The following is a list of published (and some unpublished) works by or about the American film director Woody Allen.
Woody Allen has 276 books on Goodreads with 123723 ratings. Woody Allen’s most popular book is Apropos of Nothing.
He subsequently released three LP albums of live nightclub recordings: the self-titled Woody Allen (1964), Volume 2 (1965), and The Third Woody Allen Album (1968), recorded at a fund-raiser for Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential run. [66]
Aug 13, 2012 · Film legend Woody Allen talks us through his favourite books, from JD Salinger to Elia Kazan. Interview by Eve Gerber. Woody Allen on Woody Allen. by Woody Allen. Read. 1 The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger. 2 Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe. 3 The World of S J Perelman by S J Perelman.
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Allen has previously published essay collections. He had previously planned to release a memoir in 2003 published by Penguin, but reportedly changed his mind.
Apropos of Nothing covers Allen's childhood in Brooklyn in the 1940s, as well as his early career writing on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows with Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart, and his early standup years in Greenwich Village with Nichols and May and Dick Cavett. Allen also writes about his extensive filmography, and his collaborations ...
Hachette and cancellation
The sexual abuse allegations against Allen and the Me Too movement reportedly led to Allen's memoir being rejected by several publishers, before being accepted by Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group.The book was officially announced by Grand Central Publishing on March 2, 2020. Ronan and Dylan Farrow described the publication of the book by Hachette Book Group as "deeply upsetting" and a "betrayal". Ronan Farrow's book Catch and Kill (2019) was published by Little, Bro...
Reaction to cancellation
Writer Stephen King criticized Hachette's decision to cancel the book on Twitter. King stated, "The Hachette decision to drop the Woody Allen book makes me very uneasy. It's not him; I don't give a damn about Mr Allen. It's who gets muzzled next that worries me ... If you think he's a paedophile, don't buy the book. Don't go to his movies. Don't go listen to him play jazz at the Carlyle Hotel. Vote with your wallet ... In America, that's how we do it."King also said that "it was fucking tone-...
Publication by Arcade
The memoir was published in hardcover and e-book on March 23, 2020, by Arcade Publishing, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing. Arcade Publishing founder Jeannette Seaver described the book as "wonderful, very well-written, extremely entertaining and so honest". "All you need to do is read the book, and you'll understand everything", she claimed.Of Hachette's decision not to publish the book, she said, "I was so appalled that [Hachette] would drop a man like Woody Allen." The memoir is a best se...
Spanish
El Confidencial reported on March 9, 2020, that Allen's Spanish publisher Alianza remained committed to the book's release, despite Hachette dropping the book. The report said the Spanish-language edition would be called A propósito de nada, and was intended to be published on May 21, 2020.
French
Stock, a French-language subsidiary of Hachette, announced that they planned to publish a French translation of the book (by Marc Amefreville and Antoine Cazé) titled Soit dit en passant (lit. transl.By the way) on May 13, 2020. In an interview with France Inter public radio, Stock's chairman, Manuel Carcassonne, said "Woody Allen is not Roman Polanski...Roman Polanski has acknowledged some of the accusations made against him. This is not at all the case for Woody Allen who has always protest...
German
A German-language translation was announced by German publisher Rowohlt with the title Woody Allen. Ganz nebenbei. Autobiographie. for publication on April 7, 2020. In an open letter, several German authors published by Rowohlt criticized the company's decision to publish the book without fact-checking first. This includes Giulia Becker, Kirsten Fuchs, Lena Gorelik, Marlene Hellene, Sebastian Janata, Julia Korbik, Sascha Lobo, Anselm Neft, Kathrin Passig, Till Raether, Anna Schatz, Aleks Scho...
The book received mixed reviews, with some critics attacking its attitude to women and accused it of self-pitying, while others have praised its humour and easy-going narrative voice. At the review aggregator website Book Marks, which assigns individual ratings to book reviews from mainstream literary critics, the book received a cumulative "Pan" r...
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Noted American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker Woody Allen, originally Allen Stewart Konigsberg explored the neuroses of the urban middle class in comedies of manners, such as Annie Hall (1977) and Deconstructing Harry (1997). This director, jazz musician, and playwright thrice won Academy Award.
