I've been reading a Bookshare book, Catch and Kill, by Roman Farrow.
Although it's nonfiction, it is certainly filled with suspense. He is the
reporter who wrote the New Yorker articles about the Harvey Weinstein case.
The book is the story of what he went through in order to write the
articles. He is the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, and it is his sister,
just a few years older than he, whose accusation of sexual abuse by Allen,
was the subject of a New Yorker article a few years ago and which caused so
much public discussion. Because of his sister's experience, Roman is
particularly sensitive to the concerns of women who are sexually abused by
powerful men. As an aside, he is the biological son of Allen and Farrow and
he is gay. Anyway, the book tells in fascinating detail, how NBC stopped his
reporting on the story because of pressure from Weinstein and, I think also,
because of the personal discomfort of the men at the top of the hierarchy.
The New Yorker was where he went as NBC was bailing out. But perhaps the
most horrible thing is to read how money and power worked in this situation
and of how many people were either too frightened or too self interested to
do the right thing. And as I read, I compare the way the police treated
Weinstein to what I've heard about accused sexual predators who are not
permitted to live near any residential areas and end up living under
bridges. Reading the stuff I read is probably not good for my mental health
because everything I read and hear, verifies my belief that our society is
unalterably corrupted.
Miriam
