Woody Allen, the film director who has been accused of sexually abusing his daughter when she was 7, is publishing a new collection of “short humor essays.”
Arcade Publishing, a Skyhorse Publishing imprint, announced it will release Allen’s Zero Gravity this spring.
“Zero Gravity is the fifth collection of comic pieces by Woody Allen, a hilarious prose stylist whose enduring appeal readers have savored since his classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, Side Effects, and Mere Anarchy,” the press said. “Whether he’s writing about horses that paint, cars that think, the sex lives of celebrities, or how General Tso’s Chicken got its name, he is always totally original, broad yet sophisticated, acutely observant, and most important, relentlessly funny.”
Arcade published Allen’s autobiography, Apropos of Nothing, in 2020, after it had been dropped by Hachette following protests from employees. The workers objected to the publisher’s decision to work with Allen, whose daughter Dylan Farrow has accused him of molesting her when she was a child.
Arcade’s parent company, Skyhorse, is known for publishing books by controversial authors. It released Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth after its original publisher, W.W. Norton, took the book out of print when Bailey was accused of grooming and sexual assault by multiple women. It has also published books by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and by Garrison Keillor, the radio show host who has been accused of sexual harassment.
Zero Gravity is slated for publication on June 7.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
