Jim Gavin
@jimatdeltaco.bsky.social
Middle Men (Simon & Schuster), Lodge 49 (AMC+), Tiger Van Books
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Jim Gavin
@jimatdeltaco.bsky.social
· Feb 20
Down and Out in Hollywood | Los Angeles Review of Books
Justin Gautreau considers Lou Mathews’s new novel “Hollywoodski.”
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Wow! Dig this enthusiastic and thoughtful review of HOLLYWOODSKI in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Really nails how it both carries on the grand tradition of the Hollywood and transcends it. Thrilled for @loubeard.bsky.social! Order yr copy today and spread the word!! @bookshop-org.bsky.social
Love this book, an LA classic
The Dodgers are in the World Series, McCarthyism is back, and there isn't nearly enough housing to go around—all of which makes this a good time to read Stealing Home. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eric-...
Stealing Home
The "scrupulously detailed" (Los Angeles Times) story of how the fight to build Dodgers Stadium, and transform Los Angeles into a big league city, ...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Love this book, an LA classic
This record will make you feel good, like a Quaalude, and only a finite number were made, also like a Quaalude.
LOOK! The Easy AM 66 Promotional Album Vol. 3 has arrived on LP, ready for easy listening on your hi-fi while you swirl Drambuie in an open robe.
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This limited edition pressing is a special gift for premium contributions to Programme 4 - ONLY A FEW ARE LEFT so ACT NOW! Programme4.bandcamp.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This record will make you feel good, like a Quaalude, and only a finite number were made, also like a Quaalude.
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In college a friend played a vocals only version of Pet Sounds for a group of us. We just stood there in his room listening silently. One of those moments when music just completely blew my mind.
I spent months in my car driving singing along, trying to comprehend harmony.
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I spent months in my car driving singing along, trying to comprehend harmony.
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Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice (Vocals Only)
YouTube video by Panchito Villa
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June 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In college a friend played a vocals only version of Pet Sounds for a group of us. We just stood there in his room listening silently. One of those moments when music just completely blew my mind.
I spent months in my car driving singing along, trying to comprehend harmony.
youtu.be/2YB_ALnkHj0?...
I spent months in my car driving singing along, trying to comprehend harmony.
youtu.be/2YB_ALnkHj0?...
Congrats to @loubeard.bsky.social on his Pushcart Prize, and many thanks to @newenglandreview.bsky.social for championing Lou and so many other amazing writers. Lou's prize story is a chapter in HOLLYWOODSKI - order your copy today from your local independent bookstore!
Just heard the resounding news that my story "Desperate Times, Desperate Crimes" from The New England Review 45.3 has just won a Pushcart Prize. My thanks to Jim Gavin at Tiger Van Books who did the heavy lifting on this one, and Carolyn Kuebler at NER who did the fine tuning.
May 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Congrats to @loubeard.bsky.social on his Pushcart Prize, and many thanks to @newenglandreview.bsky.social for championing Lou and so many other amazing writers. Lou's prize story is a chapter in HOLLYWOODSKI - order your copy today from your local independent bookstore!
Stephen Dedalus said "It's an age of exhausted whoredom groping for its god." Dude nailed it.
April 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Stephen Dedalus said "It's an age of exhausted whoredom groping for its god." Dude nailed it.
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Need an excuse to buy more books? Now you have one! Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Show your favorite indie some love.
Why Shopping Local This Indie Bookstore Day Is More Important Than Ever
Several independent book store owners are encouraging people to go out to their local independent bookstores to buy some novels to help celebrate Independent Bookstore Day and keep independent busines...
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April 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Need an excuse to buy more books? Now you have one! Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Show your favorite indie some love.
ATTN LYNX: Today is Independent Bookstore Day, the perfect day to order a copy of HOLLYWOODSKI by the great @loubeard.bsky.social from your local indie bookstore, or buy from the excellent @bookshop.org. As always, all of us at Tiger Van Books appreciate your support. #languageistheultimatehigh
April 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
ATTN LYNX: Today is Independent Bookstore Day, the perfect day to order a copy of HOLLYWOODSKI by the great @loubeard.bsky.social from your local indie bookstore, or buy from the excellent @bookshop.org. As always, all of us at Tiger Van Books appreciate your support. #languageistheultimatehigh
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
Lots of great stuff at the LA Times Book Festival this weekend, including this great panel with @loubeard.bsky.social. The festival is a great place to support independent presses like Tiger Van Books. Make a day of it, drink some wine, descend into Dionysian mayhem, acquire a tote bag...
April 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Lots of great stuff at the LA Times Book Festival this weekend, including this great panel with @loubeard.bsky.social. The festival is a great place to support independent presses like Tiger Van Books. Make a day of it, drink some wine, descend into Dionysian mayhem, acquire a tote bag...
This memoir is so timely, heartbreaking, hilarious, inventive, kaleidoscopic, and instantly canonical as a vision of Hollywood...I don't know how @specktor.bsky.social pulled it off, but very glad he did. The man knows of what he speaks. I highly recommend purchasing a copy today. #riverrun
THE GOLDEN HOUR is out in the world today! If you're in LA, I hope you'll come see Tom Bissell and I chop it up at Diesel Books at 6:30
April 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This memoir is so timely, heartbreaking, hilarious, inventive, kaleidoscopic, and instantly canonical as a vision of Hollywood...I don't know how @specktor.bsky.social pulled it off, but very glad he did. The man knows of what he speaks. I highly recommend purchasing a copy today. #riverrun
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I will always hold it against the fake money people that they appropriated “crypto” from cool things like your Sasquatches and Mothmans. They should have called their dumb shit something like Goofbux
April 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I will always hold it against the fake money people that they appropriated “crypto” from cool things like your Sasquatches and Mothmans. They should have called their dumb shit something like Goofbux
“You’re a loser. Because you’re dead inside and you can’t live unless you make everything else dead around you.”
Fast Eddie knew the score.
Fast Eddie knew the score.
The Hustler (5/5) Movie CLIP - Eddie Stands Up to Bert (1961) HD
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April 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“You’re a loser. Because you’re dead inside and you can’t live unless you make everything else dead around you.”
Fast Eddie knew the score.
Fast Eddie knew the score.
ATTN LYNX: It's been great hearing from folks who are loving HOLLYWOODSKI by @loubeard.bsky.social . As always, thank you for supporting TIGER VAN BOOKS! And thank you @pattonoswalt.bsky.social for the ace blurb! Stay tuned this week for a rad TIGER VAN/LODGE 49 cross-promo! #radness
March 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
ATTN LYNX: It's been great hearing from folks who are loving HOLLYWOODSKI by @loubeard.bsky.social . As always, thank you for supporting TIGER VAN BOOKS! And thank you @pattonoswalt.bsky.social for the ace blurb! Stay tuned this week for a rad TIGER VAN/LODGE 49 cross-promo! #radness
The best
March 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The best
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A good Bandcamp Friday to you. There could not be a better time to support art and soothe your soul — why not do both, with the Easy AM 66 Promotional Album Vol. 3. Available without a prescription here: programme4.Bandcamp.com 🌤️
March 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
A good Bandcamp Friday to you. There could not be a better time to support art and soothe your soul — why not do both, with the Easy AM 66 Promotional Album Vol. 3. Available without a prescription here: programme4.Bandcamp.com 🌤️
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Best book of the year so far is @loubeard.bsky.social’s Hollywoodski, a novel in short stories about the life of Dale Davis, a “faded” screenwriter working on the margins of Tinseltown. It’s lovely and elegiac and hits so many details about its demimonde just right. Fantastic, funny and brilliant.
February 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Best book of the year so far is @loubeard.bsky.social’s Hollywoodski, a novel in short stories about the life of Dale Davis, a “faded” screenwriter working on the margins of Tinseltown. It’s lovely and elegiac and hits so many details about its demimonde just right. Fantastic, funny and brilliant.
Wow! Dig this enthusiastic and thoughtful review of HOLLYWOODSKI in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Really nails how it both carries on the grand tradition of the Hollywood and transcends it. Thrilled for @loubeard.bsky.social! Order yr copy today and spread the word!! @bookshop-org.bsky.social
Down and Out in Hollywood | Los Angeles Review of Books
Justin Gautreau considers Lou Mathews’s new novel “Hollywoodski.”
lareviewofbooks.org
February 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Wow! Dig this enthusiastic and thoughtful review of HOLLYWOODSKI in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Really nails how it both carries on the grand tradition of the Hollywood and transcends it. Thrilled for @loubeard.bsky.social! Order yr copy today and spread the word!! @bookshop-org.bsky.social
ATTN LYNX: the lodge is where you take it!
We are huge fans of a show called Lodge 49 and it has a big presence in our lives even though it was cancelled after only two seasons in 2019. 😢 We have a Lodge 49 holiday every year and this year the highlight was these “lemon standard” donuts. 🍋
February 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
ATTN LYNX: the lodge is where you take it!
Love this pic of @loubeard.bsky.social and @jryanstradal.bsky.social discussing HOLLYWOODSKI at the recent book launch. To understand what's so damn funny, order your copy from @bookshop-org.bsky.social. Thank you for supporting Tiger Van Books! tigervanbooks.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Love this pic of @loubeard.bsky.social and @jryanstradal.bsky.social discussing HOLLYWOODSKI at the recent book launch. To understand what's so damn funny, order your copy from @bookshop-org.bsky.social. Thank you for supporting Tiger Van Books! tigervanbooks.com
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PSA for Lodge 49 fans (currently streaming for free on ITVX). The great Sonya Cassidy (Liz Dudley) is in Season 3 of Reacher.
If you've never seen Lodge 49 or don't know why Sonya Cassidy and/or Liz Dudley are so great, here is a video that a fan (not me) has made for you
youtu.be/qI1Be9aTz_0?...
If you've never seen Lodge 49 or don't know why Sonya Cassidy and/or Liz Dudley are so great, here is a video that a fan (not me) has made for you
youtu.be/qI1Be9aTz_0?...
Liz Dudley Can Handle Anything — Lodge 49
YouTube video by jaw513
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February 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
PSA for Lodge 49 fans (currently streaming for free on ITVX). The great Sonya Cassidy (Liz Dudley) is in Season 3 of Reacher.
If you've never seen Lodge 49 or don't know why Sonya Cassidy and/or Liz Dudley are so great, here is a video that a fan (not me) has made for you
youtu.be/qI1Be9aTz_0?...
If you've never seen Lodge 49 or don't know why Sonya Cassidy and/or Liz Dudley are so great, here is a video that a fan (not me) has made for you
youtu.be/qI1Be9aTz_0?...
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My novel is two years old
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
My novel is two years old
Raconteur/Licensed Mechanic @loubeard.bsky.social will be reading from HOLLYWOODSKI tomorrow evening at Chevalier's Books in Larchmont, 6pm. He'll also be chatting with one of LA's finest, @jryanstradal.bsky.social. If you can't make it...buy the book at your fav indie bookstore!
January 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Raconteur/Licensed Mechanic @loubeard.bsky.social will be reading from HOLLYWOODSKI tomorrow evening at Chevalier's Books in Larchmont, 6pm. He'll also be chatting with one of LA's finest, @jryanstradal.bsky.social. If you can't make it...buy the book at your fav indie bookstore!
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Actually said "fuck yeah" out loud when I saw this news. Get in the Tiger Van y'all. It's going places.
Happy publication day to @loubeard.bsky.social HOLLYWOODSKI is now available from Tiger Van Books! I recommend ordering through @bookshop-org.bsky.social or – even better – asking your local independent bookstore to order a copy for you! Yeah! Get hip!
January 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Actually said "fuck yeah" out loud when I saw this news. Get in the Tiger Van y'all. It's going places.
Thank you, as always, Jay! I expect the same from the rest of you!
Also, if you can, get your local library to buy a copy or 6. I did!
January 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Thank you, as always, Jay! I expect the same from the rest of you!
Happy publication day to @loubeard.bsky.social HOLLYWOODSKI is now available from Tiger Van Books! I recommend ordering through @bookshop-org.bsky.social or – even better – asking your local independent bookstore to order a copy for you! Yeah! Get hip!
January 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Happy publication day to @loubeard.bsky.social HOLLYWOODSKI is now available from Tiger Van Books! I recommend ordering through @bookshop-org.bsky.social or – even better – asking your local independent bookstore to order a copy for you! Yeah! Get hip!