Matthew Weiner takes a break from TV success with a suspenseful new book
by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times
Nov 08, 2017
4 minutes
NEW YORK - One day in the fall of 2015, Matthew Weiner was wandering a rarefied block on the Upper East Side when he saw a construction worker leering at an adolescent girl in a school uniform - "tall and slender and a little knock-kneed" - as she walked into a building under renovation.
"What I really notice," he says, remembering the event, "is him staring at her in a way that really just makes me sick." Now he's tucked into a booth in the velvety bunker of the restaurant at the Carlyle Hotel, near where he witnessed the troubling encounter. "As I was walking around the
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