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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Sep 5

This record will make you feel good, like a Quaalude, and only a finite number were made, also like a Quaalude.

Rachel Lichtman @rachellichtman.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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

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Joe Moore @joooooemoooore.bsky.social · Jun 11

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?...

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

YouTube video by Panchito Villa

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Jun 2

Right on!

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · May 6

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!

loubeard.bsky.social @loubeard.bsky.social · May 1

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.

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Apr 30

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 · Apr 28

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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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Apr 25

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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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Apr 26

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 · Apr 23

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 · Apr 24

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 · Apr 22

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

Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · Apr 17

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 · Apr 9

“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.

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

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Apr 2

I know a little German…

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Mar 28

Wise might be stretching it, fellas

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Mar 23

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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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Mar 21

The best

Rachel Lichtman @rachellichtman.bsky.social · Mar 20

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Rachel Lichtman @rachellichtman.bsky.social · Mar 7

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 · Mar 5

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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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Mar 4

This is quality content

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Gabe Soria @bitchinville.bsky.social · Feb 26

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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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Feb 20

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

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Feb 20

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?

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Feb 19

like London buses…as they say
@justinwriter.bsky.social can confirm they say this

buses.as

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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social · Feb 19

right on!

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