television program Supersize vs Superskinny because of a poll that ranked the residents of the city as the most obese in the United States. Evansville and neighboring Newburgh was the featured location for the feature film Back in the Day filmed in 2014. Evansville is mentioned several times in the third and fourth seasons of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. In 2021, an episode of HBO's "We're Here" was filmed in Evansville. Literary media Evansville is featured in a section of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita, as well as Walker Percy's 1962 novel The Moviegoer, and Robert Silverberg's 1969 science fiction novel To Live Again. Evansville is the primary location in the historical fiction novel, Invitation to Valhalla by Mike Whicker, published in 2004. The novel is based on the records of German spy Erika Lehmann's attempt to infiltrate the LST shipyards during WWII. An Evansville couple is the focus of "Hungarian Rhapsody: An Adoption Story" by James Derk, based on a series of stories in the Evansville Courier & Press. Evansville, under the name Vansul, appears as a slapstick satire in the post-apocalyptic novel Light of the Ancient Sun. Evansville is the hometown of the protagonist, Jack Crabb, in Thomas Berger's 1964 book Little Big Man. This is not mentioned in the 1970 cinematic adaption, Little Big Man. Sister cities Evansville has three sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc. (SCI): Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany Tizimín, Yucatán, Mexico Tochigi City, Japan Notes References Further reading Lawrence M. Lipin, Producers, Proletarians, and Politicians: Workers and Party Politics in Evansville and New Albany, Indiana, 1850-87. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994. External links City of Evansville Evansville Convention and Visitor's Bureau Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library's digital archive Populated places established in 1812 Cities in Indiana Cities in Vanderburgh County, Indiana Communities of Southwestern Indiana Evansville metropolitan area County seats in Indiana Indiana populated places on the Ohio River 1812 establishments in Indiana Territory World War II Heritage Cities