By Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic Less than 24 hours after dozens of employees of Hachette Book Group staged a walkout in protest over next month’s scheduled publication of Woody Allen’s memoir, the company has pulled the plug on the Oscar winner’s book. “Hachette Book Group has decided that it will not publish Woody Allen’s memoir Apropos of Nothing, originally scheduled for sale in April 2020, and will return all rights to the author,” said the umbrella company of imprint Grand Central Publishing today. “The decision to cancel Mr.
Allen’s book was a difficult one,” the Michael Pietsch-run publisher added of the book that was to hit shelves on April 7. “At HBG we take our relationships with authors very seriously, and
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