New York, New York - New Angouleme (or New Amsterdam if you believe TMBG)
Atlanta, GA (originally Terminus, and then Marthasville)
Truth or Consequences, N.M. – Hot Springs
Montgomery, AL- New Philadelphia/Alabama City (two towns that merged)
Cincinnati, OH – Losantiville
San Francisco, CA-- Yerba Buena
Farmingdale, NY - Hardscrabble
Chicago, IL - Fort Dearborn
Salt Lake City, UT- Great Salt Lake City
Boston, MA – Trimountaine
Jim Thorpe, PA- Mauch Chunk
Literary Scandals
James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
Literary scandal as used here does not mean a book about a scandal but a book or writer to which a scandal is attached (plagiarism, fraudulent research, false memoirs, etc.). For example, for anyone who doesn’t know A Million Little Pieces was a memoir about Frey’s drug use and incarceration and rehabilitation but after it was a bestseller and an Oprah selection it was revealed it was more fiction than non-fiction (and had even originally been marketed to publishers as fiction).
Asa (Forrest) Carter, The Education of Little Tree
JT Leroy, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
Short version: JT Leroy was a 20 something HIV+ mtf transgendered former child prostitute who wrote his (or her- not sure if JT identified as a woman or was just a transvestite- I’ll say his) memoirs. He had a cult following, occasionally attending book readings in campy drag and sunglasses, and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, a memoir of his life with his mother, a “lot lizard” (truckstop prostitute), became a a movie starring the twins from The Suite Life, Michael Pitts, and Peter Fonda among others. One woman claimed he fathered her child through in vitro, which would have been a neat trick since JT was actually a 38 year old female writing instructor. (The JT at appearances was her much younger half sister.)
Asa (Forrest) Carter, The Education of Little Tree
JT Leroy, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
H.G. Wells, The Outline of History
Clifford Irving (The Howard Hughes biography)
9.)Herman Rosenblat" Angel at the Fence: The True Story of Love That Survived"
Would Jose Canseco’s "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big" count as a literary scandal or just a book that helped expose the steroid scandal?
Asa (Forrest) Carter, The Education of Little Tree
JT Leroy, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
H.G. Wells, The Outline of History
Clifford Irving (The Howard Hughes biography)
Herman Rosenblat “Angel at the Fence: The True Story of Love That Survived”
Salmon Rushdie, Satanic Verses
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Would Jose Canseco’s “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big” count as a literary scandal or just a book that helped expose the steroid scandal?
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Exposé, yes. Scandal, not so much.
Asa (Forrest) Carter, The Education of Little Tree
JT Leroy, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
H.G. Wells, The Outline of History
Clifford Irving (The Howard Hughes biography)
Herman Rosenblat “Angel at the Fence: The True Story of Love That Survived”
Salmon Rushdie, Satanic Verses
Margaret B. Jones (Seltzer), Love and Consequences
The Hitler Diaries
Ken Adachi, the late literary critic for the Toronto Star, who committed suicide in 1989 when it was discovered that he had plagiarized three paragraphs from Time magazine. It was the second time he had been caught plagiarizing - the first time had been in 1981.
Next category - Selenographical features, including mountains, craters, seas and catenas.