“I will be even more incoherent and distracted than I was before,” Farrow, who has been making the publicity rounds for Catch and Kill, ruefully cracks. At the urging of his publicists, Farrow signs books during the entirety of our conversation. There is one more talent you can add to the list: proficient multi-tasker. Additionally, he is a Yale Law School graduate, a former Obama administration official, and an Oxford Rhodes scholar, as well as one of those rare celebrity scions whose parents (Mia Farrow and Woody Allen) are mentioned as secondary to his considerable achievements.

He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of Catch and Kill, which documents the arduous reporting process behind his groundbreaking 2017 New Yorker investigation into the sexual assault allegations against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Escher drawing,” he says.įarrow is one of the last true cultural polymaths.

It is Tuesday, the day of the book’s release, and he says it is the first time he has seen them laid out en masse in labyrinthine stacks, almost like an “M.C. On an unseasonably warm October afternoon, in a basement in the historic Cooper Union Building in Manhattan, Ronan Farrow, flanked by a team of well-dressed publicists, is diligently signing books.

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow