But these new memoirs cannot be shoved aside so easily.
Former officials whose memoirs cannot be published in China, among them the late ousted party leader, Zhao Ziyang, often turn to Hong Kong for an outlet.
He was a brilliant writer yet his letters and his memoirs cannot be trusted because he started to tell lies to his mother at a young age and never stopped doing so.
As athletes' memoirs go, "You Cannot Be Serious," written with James Kaplan, is a pretty appealing book.
"Without even discussing it, I said, 'You have to come work with us.' " Even more startling were the many writers who followed him there, including those who had defected to other agencies, including Heather Clay, author of "Losing Charlotte," and Nick Flynn, author of a memoir whose graphic title cannot be published here.
Listening to authors read their own memoirs introduces an intimacy that cannot be achieved without the audio, Mr. Hamburg said.
A name is a private thing: the Rosie that she thought herself to be was not – cannot be – the Rosie of the memoir.
But the memoir-writer died last February so that prediction cannot be tested.
What Dow exposes in this dark, raw memoir is not just a dispassionate machinery of death that cannot be slowed, reversed or mediated by truth, logic or fact.
Writing in his memoirs, he affirmed: "Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power.
