by Jeffrey Davies
Truman Capote once wrote, "I don't care what anybody says about me, as long as it isn't true." But more times than not, it's the hidden truths that turn out to be the most interesting. As Long As It Isn't True is a literary podcast that delves into some of literature's biggest scandals and controversies, both those well known and those less remembered. Follow on Instagram @literaryscandals.
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November 20, 2025
<p>After a long hiatus, As Long As It Isn't True returns for season two.</p><p>In 1958, Truman Capote published his novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, which would go on to become one of the most beloved pieces of literature of all-time. It would inspire the equally beloved film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn in 1961, a film we're still talking about today. But Capote's inspiration for the character of Holly Golightly is a whole other story, as well as the flocks of women who started claiming they were the real Holly Golightly on which Capote based the character. Threats of libel lawsuits were made. But the true inspiration for Holly is something of a Freudian tale...</p><p>Instagram: <a href="instagram.com/literaryscandals" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@literaryscandals</a></p><p>Selected bibliography: </p><p>• Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson</p><p>• "<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gay-pride-book-truman-cap_b_5535140?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNhLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAH333akQCTdSrhPtD8s481SVUURNUTLV2NQYHHxBb0N9fZKvXEcTTFzbaw3_nWJbztMfiw6wLsp9OHd77r3cXnS6uRPFoGt4pLMjNP5FYNyt33px5NUeI9rbUSnSabHtRLQIMsEQDAvtmBkPwDR_kwy_p1EaiOoF7cUuhdJ22LlT" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Gay Pride Book: Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's - the Novel That Saved My Life</a>" by Jamie Brickhouse, HuffPost </p><p>• Capote by Gerald Clarke</p>
November 21, 2024
Jean Shepherd, a late-night '50s radio DJ, masterminds a literary hoax by creating a non-existent book, I, Libertine, to expose the power of conformity and the human desire for connection.
September 26, 2024
After her writing career as a biographer was destroyed by a book that tanked, as well as her off-putting personality, Lee Israel fell into poverty and began forging letters and literary documents of prominent 20th-century authors. She was so good at slipping into the words and minds of others that some of her forgeries even made their way into an early edition of a 2007 biography on Noël Coward. But like all good career criminals, Lee's success would come to an untimely end. She would tell her story in her 2008 memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger, which was adapted into a feature film starring Melissa McCarthy as Lee — for which she would be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.Additional narrations were provided by Sharon Hyland. Theme music is credited to Wendy Marcini, Elvin Vanguard, and Jules Gaia.Instagram: @literaryscandals (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-3563083/episodes/e-132875359/edit/instagram.com/literaryscandals)Selected bibliography:• Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel• "How A Successful Biographer Became A Forger (https://www.npr.org/2008/09/10/94461486/how-a-successful-biographer-became-a-forger)," NPR
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Truman Capote once wrote, "I don't care what anybody says about me, as long as it isn't true." But more times than not, it's the hidden truths that turn out to be the most interesting.
As Long As It Isn't True is a literary podcast that delves into some of literature's biggest scandals and controversies, both those well known and those less remembered.
Follow on Instagram @literaryscandals.
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