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Dorothy Carvello on Her New Novel, Ongoing Lawsuit & Sexual Assault in the Music Industry: ‘We’ve Had No #MeToo’

Dorothy Carvello talks about her new novel and sexual assault in the music industry in a new interview: "We've had no #MeToo in the music business."

Most of the men in Dorothy Carvello ‘s new novel The Circle Broken are horrible: Bucky, a Nashville record-label chief who screams in a crowded restaurant that his wife is the “whore of Babylon”; The Colonel, who controls his country-star client and takes 40% of his royalties, leaving the singer with just 10%; and Michael, the tortured young talent who suffers a traumatic brain injury and berates and gaslights his partner. In the new book, the fictional Katz gives a speech honoring a Nashville record mogul and says he’s “proof that If you do good enough in this town, you’ll be rewarded in kind. One of the most disturbing details in Anything for a Hit, amid many descriptions of sexual abuse, is your allegation that Ertegun fractured your arm because he was angry about a subpar Skid Row concert after you’d steered Atlantic into signing the band.

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