"California will be a sight for THESE weary eyes." Best line reading ever. Just the best ever in general. RIP Catherine O'Hara.
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"California will be a sight for THESE weary eyes." Best line reading ever. Just the best ever in general. RIP Catherine O'Hara.
Anybody who’s into wonderfully written stories about life in the liminal spaces of Hollywood owes it to themself to pick up Lou Mathews’s Hollywoodski. And while you’re at it, get his books Shaky Town and L.A. Breakdown, all from @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social’s Tiger Van Books!
And may I recommend the Lou Mathews Trifecta: HOLLYWOODSKI, L.A. BREAKDOWN, and SHAKY TOWN, all available through @bookshop.org.
Stoked to see this starred review in Kirkus for HOLLYWOODSKI!!! As the founder of TIGER VAN BOOKS, it has been such an honor to publish the great @loubeard.bsky.social and bring his vision of Los Angeles to a wider audience. Thank you to everyone who has supported our independent press.
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.
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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Right on!
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.
I'm sorry to say that at the moment we are not taking submissions. Tiger Van is a very small operation and I need to take some time to figure out if we can expand. If we do start taking submissions I will make an announcement.
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
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...
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
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.
I know a little German…
Wise might be stretching it, fellas
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
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The best…also i can recommend @specktor.bsky.social forthcoming memoir for a million reasons not least his correspondence with Hazzard as he tried valiantly to adapt Transit of Venus for the screen.
This is quality content
The cover of Lou Mathews’ new novel Hollywoodski, a humorous and melancholic account of a “faded” screenwriter’s career in Hollywood.
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
Does the first line of my WIP - "After a long train journey that I don't feel like talking about, I arrived in Fresno." - meet this criteria?
like London buses…as they say
@justinwriter.bsky.social can confirm they say this
