The moment I heard that Ken Auletta was attending every day of the Harvey Weinstein rape trial for a book on the mogul, I started looking forward to Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence (out July 12). Ken, the longtime New Yorker writer, conducted several hundred interviews, including dozens of chats with Bob Weinstein, former Miramax and Weinstein Co. employees, and longtime advisors, like Joe Ravitch, Bert Fields and David Boies. And he exchanged emails with Harvey himself from prison. The result is the opposite of She Said or Catch and Kill, which both read like detective stories. Auletta tells the Harvey story from the inside, naming names of the enablers, and revealing Hollywood’s “architecture of collusion” along the way. I interviewed Ken and followed up with a couple emails; an edited version of our conversation is below.