confessions, mine and theirs, True Story
In June I attended a research institute in Ohio. It was a scholarly thing, populated by grad students and independent researchers all studying some aspect of pop culture. My research project was on Betty and Veronica from the Archie comics prior and after the Comics Code Authority approval process. While I was passing through the stacks, I spotted a shelf filled with issues of True Story, a confession genre magazine I published with in the very beginning of my writing career. I think I sold about a dozen of my very secret and scandalous confessions. Naturally, upon seeing these issues I had to make a video - see above. The confession magazines printed stories they claimed to be the darkest confessions from all around the world. Looking back now, I think they are much like the reality shows of today. The stories fill the same niche. Here's what the ultra trusty and scholarly source Encycopeida.com has to say about these magazines: "In May 1919, the first issue of True Story
