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Tyler Mcmahon

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Born

in Washington, DC, The United States

Website

http://tylermcmahon.net/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Stories

Influences

Denis Johnson, Anne Patchett, John Steinbeck

Member Since

October 2007

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Tyler McMahon was born and raised in the Washington, DC area. He studied English at the University of Virginia and received an MFA in fiction writing from Boise State University.
He's the author of the novels How the Mistakes Were Made (2011), Kilometer 99 (2014), Dream of Another America (2018), and One Potato (2022)
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Average rating: 3.85 · 546 ratings · 114 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	How the Mistakes Were Made 3.84 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kilometer 99 3.86 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Potato 3.77 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surfing's Greatest Misadventures by Paul Diamond, Tyler Mcmahon (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fishing's Greatest Misadventures 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dream of Another America it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Boot Camp by Araceli Almond, Tyler Mcmahon (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“. . . and so the whorl ends not with a bang or with a whimper, but with the sound of two politicians patting each other on the back, and congratulating themselves on the outstanding job that they're doing.”
― Tyler McMahon

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“I was seeing the world, and it turned out to be a lonely place.”
― Tyler Mcmahon, How the Mistakes Were Made

tags: life, travel, world

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“There will be pain on everyone's part. We will cause hurt, and we will suffer, and in the end, we'll be no better for it”
― Tyler Mcmahon, How the Mistakes Were Made

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Tyler’s Quotes

“Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son

tags: beverely-home

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“I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.”
― Tobias Wolff

tags: depression-stories

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