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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

do any of them chuckle? Or "shoot" a look at someone else. Be honest.

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My father contracted polio at age 6, was in an iron lung for weeks as a child, and walked with crutches. He had a long, fulfilling life, but he dealt with the effects of the disease until he died. I sat on his lap when I received the polio vaccine as a child. Hellfire for all of these charlatans.

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Seconded…can also sit on the best books ever about LA shelf

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

eternally grateful for putting Gracq on my radar, dark stranger and shape of a city are two books i'll always revisit

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Something groovy this way comes...do not miss this, Los Angeles!!

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

England v Cameroon in '90 was the game that turned me into a soccer lifer and a glutton for sweaty operatic heartbreak, and this surpassed it. Nice to think of young kids all over the US falling in love in the same terrible way.

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Fans of weird fiction should check out this ace collection by @calmtomb.bsky.social. Uncanny and deranged and shot through with a unique tone of melancholy and contemporary unease. Dig it!

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Messi is the Son of God. He sits on the Left Foot of the Father.

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Been thinking a lot lately about how bonkers great the show Patriot was, and how people who are into Lodge 49 and/or DTF St Louis should hightail their way to watching it ASAP. Because it is, it absolutely rips in ways that TV just doesn’t (and won’t, sadly) anymore

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

on my way to becoming a roanoke head

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is a sweet story about ongoing historic social club revivification in L.A. All that's missing is a bow towards Lodge 49. lamaterial.com/p/the-ark-of...

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This looks - and I don't say this lightly - rad.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Blowing my mind that the tenement entry way here is almost identical to the one @victorlavalle.bsky.social and I lived in almost 30 years ago, when this story was just a twinkle in his eye. Full circle.

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If someone asks you what LODGE 49 is about, show them this.

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Stoked to see that HOLLYWOODSKI by @loubeard.bsky.social has been selected as a Best Indie Book of March by Kirkus Review! I'm so proud of what we've done at Tiger Van Books. Please check out Lou's beautiful books and support independent presses! www.tigervanbooks.com

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HOLLYWOODSKI | Kirkus Reviews

Mathews offers a sardonic novel-in-stories about life in the world of screenwriting.

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"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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Gabe Soria @bitchinville.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

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!

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

And may I recommend the Lou Mathews Trifecta: HOLLYWOODSKI, L.A. BREAKDOWN, and SHAKY TOWN, all available through @bookshop.org.

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

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.

kirkusreviews.com

HOLLYWOODSKI | Kirkus Reviews

Mathews offers a sardonic novel-in-stories about life in the world of screenwriting.

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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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Joe Moore @joooooemoooore.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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?...

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Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice (Vocals Only)

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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!

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Stephen Dedalus said "It's an age of exhausted whoredom groping for its god." Dude nailed it.

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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.

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

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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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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.

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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...

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

“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.

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The Hustler (5/5) Movie CLIP - Eddie Stands Up to Bert (1961) HD

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Wise might be stretching it, fellas

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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

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Rachel Lichtman @rachellichtman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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 🌤️

The Easy AM 66 Promotional Album Vol. 3 album cover

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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.

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Gabe Soria @bitchinville.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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.

The cover of Lou Mathews’ new novel Hollywoodski, a humorous and melancholic account of a “faded” screenwriter’s career in Hollywood.

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