Mr. Cera said he was 16 when he read the book and instantly connected with Nick, a precocious and embarrassingly confessional teenager living in Oakland who has terrible skin, a persistent case of virginity and a sibilant surname.
Adam Gopnik on "The Crack-Up," the modern confessional, and the lives of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
The movie is filmed like a third-person confessional about the lives of others.
I don't think Hammershoi would have liked the confessional times we live in now, when a desire for privacy is considered suspect and appreciation of any work of art seems to depend on how much we know about the artist's personal life.
And lawyers, particularly former prosecutors, often turn up as the authors of courtroom thrillers or books on the trials of the day, with all their lurid and confessional dissection of private lives.
Women enslaved to child-bearing, over-large families perpetuating ignorance and poverty, backward social policies and the iron grip of a clergy acting like the Stasi in controlling the minutiae of private lives through the confessional and the influence of fear - fear of hell, among other things.
However, we live in a confessional society and people cannot keep secrets.
But he knows that part of what audiences love about him is his willingness to tell unpopular truths; where more confessional comedians reveal secrets about their lives, he aims to reveal secrets about ours.
There is a tradition for this kind of writing – confessional and inclusive, with all of living stuffed in.
Both are graphically confessional accounts of the social and sexual lives of young women, covering issues such as first-date anal sex, threesomes and malfunctioning sex toys.
