Description: "Before his death in 2009, legendary Texas author Edwin "Bud" Shrake completed a final novel based on his real-life adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s and '80s. This rollicking new novel, discovered among Shrake's literary papers at the Wittliff Collections, provides a hilarious and insightful look at the Hollywood meat grinder"--
Review Quotes: "Hollywood Mad Dogs is a romantic and specific telling of a sportswriter's migration through 1970s Hollywood, an evocative record of that particular haze, and told in the worldview of one who lived it. It centers on a McMurtry/Danny Deck-esque hero who floats through the bacchanalia of filmmaking, refusing to become a cog in the giant, jaded machine. It feels as if Shrake might have actually experienced all these things, just for the purpose of reliving them again on the pages of this book. An important addition to the dependably fun 'go West, young screenwriter' canon.--Richard Linklater, Academy Award nominated director & screenwriter--Richard Linklater (7/3/2019 12:00:00 AM)