Not much Jayson Blair. And not a whole lot of Judith Miller, either. With just two chapters devoted to his ousting at the New York Times, we figured former exec editor Howell Raines' upcoming memoir The One That Got Away (released May 2) would be just another snoozer about fly fishing. And, generally, that's pretty accurate. Except when he does talk about Jayson Blair.

Raines offers a couple of amusing anecdotes involving family members during this difficult period. He quotes his son Ben, the Mobile Register reporter, asking over the phone: “Dad, is Jayson Blair a dwarf?” Raines says he responded, “Jayson is very short, but he’s not a dwarf, at least not a physical dwarf.”

He also recalls the advice of his wife Krystyna before the fabled showdown meeting with Times staffers in a New York theater: “Remember, your job for the next two hours is to resist every impulse to tell them to go fuck themselves.”

Some marry for love, others marry for career advice.

Preview of New Howell Raines Book: Blair Takes Back Seat [Greg Mitchell, E&P]