On the intelligence-memoir shelf, the best reads usually come from rogues — for example, "A Spy for All Seasons," by Duane (Dewey Clarridgee, of Iran-Contra notoriety, or Robert Baer's two volumes of notes on his black-sheep career in the C.I.A.'s Directorate of Operations.
Condoleezza Rice will also have her say; her memoir hits shelves in November.
The battle over the Comey memos comes as the fired FBI chief's tell-all memoir hit shelves.
He's got a debut solo album, "Warm," coming out Nov. 30, but the memoir hit shelves Tuesday.
Tony Blair's heavily embargoed, highly anticipated political memoir hits the shelves this morning, amid feverish predictions from booksellers.
Michelle Obama's "deeply personal" memoir will hit shelves Nov. 13.
Alex said he had recently noticed a friend's memoir on the bottom shelf, and he had taken a picture of it and texted it to her. "'You made the Café Grumpy bookshelf," he told her, but she hadn't been that excited about it.
She recalls visits to bookshops where she would find "shelves and shelves of misery memoir and all these women in black veils with camels walking in the background and titles like I Was Sold Into Marriage". She smiles flatly.
She recalls visits to bookshops where she would find "shelves and shelves of misery memoir and all these women in black veils with camels walking in the background and titles like I Was Sold Into Marriage".
It persuades you to take Mr. Moore seriously, and it belongs on a shelf with memoirs by, and books about, nonconformists like Mother Jones, Abbie Hoffman, Phil Ochs, Rachel Carson, Harvey Pekar and even Thomas Paine.
