Antilla is the author of Tales From the Boom-Boom Room: The Landmark Legal Battles That Exposed Wall Street’s Shocking Culture of Sexual Harassment (2002), an exploration of sexual harassment on Wall Street in the 1990s, focusing especially upon Smith Barney.
The New York Observer called the book “a work of compelling Wall Street anthropology.”[1] Antilla has received awards from The Silurians Press Club and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW),.
[5] In an editors' note the next day, the Times said that there was no credible evidence to support the rumor and expressed regret for printing it.
The jury ruled in Howard's favor on the false light issue, but denied the defamation claim.
The judges wrote that “only a strained reading of the article” would result in a conclusion that Antilla had accused Howard of being Finkelstein.