stories,
magazine articles, etc., specializing in sexual
misdemeanor and
sensation in
general, written by supposedly real people who tell their experiences and problems.
n. a
reference to the sensational, often purely fictional autobiographical tales popular in the mid-twentieth century stories that appeared in
magazines, supposedly
telling real-
life stories and true confessions of everyday people. Such
magazines contained stories
relating confessions of subjects as sexual misconduct, extramarital
affairs, etc. Confession stories became popular in the early 1900s when
American publisher, Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), issued the
magazine True Story.
stories,
magazine articles, etc., specializing in sexual
misdemeanor and
sensation in
general, written by supposedly real people who tell their experiences and problems. And as I used to be
president of the
American Fiction Guild, author's league up in
New York, when I was a kidithat's
right, I was a kidiit was very funny to me; I used to laugh myself silly all of the confession stories written in America are written by unmarried ladies who have reached forty or fifty. iMarriage (2
Jan. 60)
stories,
magazine articles, etc., specializing in sexual
misdemeanor and
sensation in
general, written by supposedly real people who tell their experiences and problems. And as I used to be
president of the
American Fiction Guild, author's league up in
New York, when I was a
kid?that's
right, I was a
kid?it was very funny to me; I used to laugh myself silly all of the confession stories written in America are written by unmarried ladies who have reached forty or fifty. ?
Marriage (2
Jan. 60)