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!

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. 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!

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

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.

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

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 🌤️

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

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

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?...

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!

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!

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!

Lou Mathews is one of THE great Los Angeles writers and Tiger Van Books rules the wasteland. The highest recommendation possible. RIYL: Jaime Hernandez, John Fante, Eve Babitz, weird L.A. Reader articles circa 1989, old New Beverly calendars, etc.

Hey hey! Look who's in the LA Times Today! Fab interview with LA native/raconteur/ licensed mechanic @loubeard.bsky.social. His novel, HOLLYWOODSKI, is coming out Tuesday from Tiger Van Books!!! Spread the news and order your copy today from @bookshop-org.bsky.social www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Wrote about the Palisades Fire and the only path forward for @throfficial.bsky.social today www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-n...

~~LA fire style guide:~~ • The neighborhood is called Pacific Palisades, no article: “The fire is in Pacific Palisades.” • If you remove “Pacific” you can add the definite article: “My childhood home in the Palisades has burned to the ground.”

Hello Bluesky friends! You might know me as the creator of LODGE 49, the lowest rated show in the history of television. But did you know I also founded Tiger Van Books, a rad indie press? Well, I fucking did, and we are so proud to announce our third title by the great Lou Mathews! Dig:

It’s the highly anticipated Easy AM 66 Top 25 of the Year!

The crooked path leads to Golden Sands

In these dark times the best way forward is to support brilliant independent artists like @rachellichtman.bsky.social, who has conjured a better, groovier world at Programme 4. Get the wax or digital download at Bandcamp. Liners by yours truly :)

ATTN LYNX: I had the honor of joining Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma on the mighty Chinwag Podcast to discuss the Royal Art of Alchemy! All secrets are revealed* *no secrets are revealed www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOr8...

Something I wrote a while ago for Bloomsday/Father’s Day

I wrote about a very powerful and very funny experience that I had over the weekend. defector.com/have-you-see...

I had a blast on the excellent @revpermovie.bsky.social podcast talking about one of my favorite bands, Jawbreaker.

Lovely end to the first iteration of my new module, 'Generation Television'. We celebrated our journey from Twin Peaks to Lodge 49 with donuts (of course) and the lovely students baked me a RR-style cherry pie!

Reading Patrick Modiano’s IN THE CAFE OF LOST YOUTH and there’s a character who each day records in a notebook the comings and goings of all the cafe customers, creating a beautiful and poignant secret history. Which is just to say we should all be thankful for @mjmimages.bsky.social

We were actually in the writers' room on Jan. 6, working on this story about an attempted right wing insurrection, as the modern one was actually going down, live. Most surreal moment of my life.

So much of contemporary white guy grievance is like "We had everything and now we barely have 83%."

Well, I started a vlog. All 50 eps available now. linktr.ee/tedtravelstead

Reposting this flash fiction of mine, because it's sort of important to me. It's about deeply loving someone with whom you have an awful, abusive relationship: electricliterature.com/skoo-by-sand...

My big dream for 2024 is to be slightly less congested.

Might take a nostalgic tour of all the places I got tested for Covid - the half abandoned strip mall, the shipping container under the freeway, the place next to the vape place.

ATTN LYNX: Friendly holiday reminder that you can stream LODGE 49 on @AMCPlus . I’ve also heard that bootleg VHS copies have been showing up at swap meets in Skopje and other parts of the former Yugoslavia. 🎄🍩🦈

Driving along the 5, sometimes you get scenes like this: JMW Turner in Kings County. What a marvel California is, even in the regions considered bleak and barren.

Great cover, great book