Tyler McAndrew
@tyler-m.bsky.social
fiction writer. debut book MY PRISONER & OTHER STORIES (mad creek books / OSU press, 2025) won the 2024 non/fiction award. https://tmcandrew.com/
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Tyler McAndrew
@tyler-m.bsky.social
· Sep 6
My Prisoner and Other Stories
Muscular and empathetic tales of ordinary Rust Belt Americans striving for hope and tenderness amid the suffering of others.
ohiostatepress.org
my first book, MY PRISONER AND OTHER STORIES—which won the 2024 non/fiction prize—is available now anywhere books are sold!
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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the master plan is to only speak to my baby using an Italian accent so that by the time she's 5 she sounds like super mario at which point i can speak normally again but it will be too late for her, the damage will already be done.
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
the master plan is to only speak to my baby using an Italian accent so that by the time she's 5 she sounds like super mario at which point i can speak normally again but it will be too late for her, the damage will already be done.
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SWEET TALK is so good, one of my all time favorite short story collections. RIP Stephanie Vaughn.
Just learned that my former professor, friend, and mentor Stephanie Vaughn, has died. For those unaware, Stephanie's book SWEET TALK is one of the greatest American story collections, up there with the likes of JESUS' SON. This is the justly famous intro of her story "Dog Heaven"
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
SWEET TALK is so good, one of my all time favorite short story collections. RIP Stephanie Vaughn.
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Oh no! SWEET TALK is one of those books I don't see talked about enough — and, in fact, often myself go too long without thinking about, and then I revisit and am reminded it's goated up there alongside JESUS' SON and ROCK SPRINGS, etc.
Just learned that my former professor, friend, and mentor Stephanie Vaughn, has died. For those unaware, Stephanie's book SWEET TALK is one of the greatest American story collections, up there with the likes of JESUS' SON. This is the justly famous intro of her story "Dog Heaven"
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Oh no! SWEET TALK is one of those books I don't see talked about enough — and, in fact, often myself go too long without thinking about, and then I revisit and am reminded it's goated up there alongside JESUS' SON and ROCK SPRINGS, etc.
i never knew stephanie personally, but Sweet Talk is one of my favorite books ever. her story "dog heaven" was one that, when i first read it as a grad student 15yrs ago, really cemented something about the sort of writer i wanted to be and the sort of stories i wanted to tell. RIP.
Just learned that my former professor, friend, and mentor Stephanie Vaughn, has died. For those unaware, Stephanie's book SWEET TALK is one of the greatest American story collections, up there with the likes of JESUS' SON. This is the justly famous intro of her story "Dog Heaven"
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
i never knew stephanie personally, but Sweet Talk is one of my favorite books ever. her story "dog heaven" was one that, when i first read it as a grad student 15yrs ago, really cemented something about the sort of writer i wanted to be and the sort of stories i wanted to tell. RIP.
kinda stopped reading for a bit cause the baby wasn't letting me get any sleep at all but i opened this one yesterday and am really, really enjoying it so far.
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
kinda stopped reading for a bit cause the baby wasn't letting me get any sleep at all but i opened this one yesterday and am really, really enjoying it so far.
bizarrely cute: one of the 9th graders at the art school where i teach wrote an article in the school paper about my book launch in september: thecapachronicle.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/l...
Literary Teacher Tyler McAndrew’s Book Launch
By Opal Bradmon On September 11, behind stacks of Penguin books and cups of coffee, fiction writer and teacher Tyler McAndrew read an excerpt from his recently published book My Prisoner and Other …
thecapachronicle.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
bizarrely cute: one of the 9th graders at the art school where i teach wrote an article in the school paper about my book launch in september: thecapachronicle.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/l...
i don't usually make new years resolutions but had the thought i'd buy 1 small / indie press book per month in 2026. i was running errands this morning, ended up near the bookstore w/ an hour to kill before work, decided to start early.
small pieces, by micheline aharonian marcom + fowzia karimi
small pieces, by micheline aharonian marcom + fowzia karimi
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
i don't usually make new years resolutions but had the thought i'd buy 1 small / indie press book per month in 2026. i was running errands this morning, ended up near the bookstore w/ an hour to kill before work, decided to start early.
small pieces, by micheline aharonian marcom + fowzia karimi
small pieces, by micheline aharonian marcom + fowzia karimi
a thing that makes me happy recently is playing keyboard with my 5-month-old baby. she's just old enough to be able to mash the keys, or to slam them with her feet. we've been sitting down every day and recording little 3-4 minute improvised songs. drive.google.com/file/d/1xtae...
improv 11.16.25.m4a
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November 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
a thing that makes me happy recently is playing keyboard with my 5-month-old baby. she's just old enough to be able to mash the keys, or to slam them with her feet. we've been sitting down every day and recording little 3-4 minute improvised songs. drive.google.com/file/d/1xtae...
in spite of how hard i try not to be, every day i become more of a "cars are evil and nobody should own one" guy
I think we just had our 6th or 7th driver of a car vs a pedestrian or bike today. Most of them did not stay on scene.
November 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
in spite of how hard i try not to be, every day i become more of a "cars are evil and nobody should own one" guy
shout out to my hometown / fuck ice forever
ICE agents in Syracuse came to detain a French man who runs a soap store and gift shop with his husband. Neighbors helped spirit him away to Canada.
When ICE came for Jeremy, Syracuse’s underground railroad helped him escape the country
Friends and family helped a well-known Syracuse man elude detention and flee to France
www.syracuse.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
shout out to my hometown / fuck ice forever
this book i bought for my baby yesterday....🤌
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
this book i bought for my baby yesterday....🤌
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you should call out of work to read the vibrant short fiction of john cheever
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
you should call out of work to read the vibrant short fiction of john cheever
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i'm like 3 days late to this but everyone was posting the first lines of their books and i think i've got some good ones.
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
i'm like 3 days late to this but everyone was posting the first lines of their books and i think i've got some good ones.
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cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
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The fundamental impetus and ideology of AI is to destroy real people’s professions and lives, while soiling the environment and debasing our most treasured cultural practices, for the vague promise of increasing shareholder profits in the name of efficiency. It’s a “fuck you” to human civilization.
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The fundamental impetus and ideology of AI is to destroy real people’s professions and lives, while soiling the environment and debasing our most treasured cultural practices, for the vague promise of increasing shareholder profits in the name of efficiency. It’s a “fuck you” to human civilization.
i'm like 3 days late to this but everyone was posting the first lines of their books and i think i've got some good ones.
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
i'm like 3 days late to this but everyone was posting the first lines of their books and i think i've got some good ones.
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“You all know how grateful I am to all of you and to everyone’s families,” he said. “The sacrifices you’ve made. You’ve gone above and beyond what anyone could ever ask for. So, I just want to say cheers to the strikers. Cheers to the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh."
'This is everyone’s win': Striking PG workers celebrate a big victory - Pittsburgh Union Progress
Monday started out as one of those cold, dreary Pittsburgh Mondays that you have to plod through as if it were sticky and slick with mud. The previous night’s Steelers’ game, a loss, made it worse. Yi...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“You all know how grateful I am to all of you and to everyone’s families,” he said. “The sacrifices you’ve made. You’ve gone above and beyond what anyone could ever ask for. So, I just want to say cheers to the strikers. Cheers to the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh."
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN!
The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.
The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN!
The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.
The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.
tapping the sign
really hoping that folks remember this sort of shit come midterm elections. maybe it's fine on the local level but don't vote for these shitheads in the senate or in congress. vote third party. it's not just some nitpicky purity test if the thing you're testing is actually fucking evil.
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
tapping the sign
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NO MORE FLOWERS by Stephanie Cawley -- a book of details that acknowledge the detriment we are all meant to assume is normal, but also believes in building via resistance www.birdsllc.com/catalog/no-m...
No More Flowers
In Stephanie Cawley’s No More Flowers, poetry serves as a resistance against suffering—their own, their loved ones’, humanity’s. A protest against meaninglessness. An antidote. The poems in No M...
www.birdsllc.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
NO MORE FLOWERS by Stephanie Cawley -- a book of details that acknowledge the detriment we are all meant to assume is normal, but also believes in building via resistance www.birdsllc.com/catalog/no-m...
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the dem senators aren't charlie brown with the football, we are
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
the dem senators aren't charlie brown with the football, we are
whenever a character in a rob zombie movie says "motherfucker": why is every single line just a string of try-hard profanity, this is nails on a chalkboard, who the hell told this guy he could write
whenever rob zombie says "motherfucker" in a white zombie song: hell yeah this rules
whenever rob zombie says "motherfucker" in a white zombie song: hell yeah this rules
is this a safe space to confess that i just bought a white zombie t-shirt
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
whenever a character in a rob zombie movie says "motherfucker": why is every single line just a string of try-hard profanity, this is nails on a chalkboard, who the hell told this guy he could write
whenever rob zombie says "motherfucker" in a white zombie song: hell yeah this rules
whenever rob zombie says "motherfucker" in a white zombie song: hell yeah this rules