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Tyler McAndrew

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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 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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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

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 6m

someday i would love to teach a workshop where the assigned readings are nothing but cheever stories.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 6h

I'm reeeeeally supposed to be grading... so put together this @bookshop.org list of these fave recent indie press short story collections:

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recent fave indie press short story collections

Bookshop.org Custom Wishlist

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 1h

hope you enjoy it, happy bday!

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 2h

I don't understand why anyone would ever use amazon when @bookshop.org exists (there's free shipping today)

Phil McAndrew's books

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

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Regret Horse @regrethorse.bsky.social · 3h

My birthday was monday and for my birthday inwant you all to buy tylers book

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 5h

(...and my book is on that list, too, and my birthday is next week, so.........)

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 5h

merce used to barista at the coffeeshop where i used to do my writing. very cool human.

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 5h

"girl on girl" is definitely among the best short story collections i've read recently. i don't even know emily but we should all celebrate her b-day like this today.

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 6h

it is @emilylauracosta.bsky.social's bday today, and so now you should extra def order Girl on Girl for yourself to celebrate

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 6h

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 6h

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 10h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 19h

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder! If you're buying books in support of #BannedBooksWeek buying from Amazon undercuts the broader project of social justice supporting the right to read is a part of. Get your banned books absolutely anywhere else!

Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown

Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.

www.technologyreview.com

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 19h

i overheard a paramedic giving a report about another patient: "car accident, rear end style." 👀

Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 1d

great opportunity to support your local bookstore.

Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 1d

Bookshop.org is having its anti-prime sale from today until tomorrow. Here's a link for 20% off: refer.bookshop.org/robertstevens

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 1d

i donated blood this morning and then passed out and puked a whole lot so they sent me to the ER, please drop some cool stuff here for me to look at on my phone

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 1d

“Every work of art must have about it something not understood to obtain its full effect.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 1d

my phone camera doesn't do it justice but there is some real count dracula shit happening in the sky above pittsburgh right now.

A dark house beneath a night sky, clouds drifting in front of the moon.

Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 1d

it's hard cause there's so many good ones but i think that's a top 3 carpenter flick for me.

Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 1d

real love-hate relationship with this. hate how often i nearly kill someone, love how they are really manifesting a world that isn't built entirely around cars.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 1d

“Why are we living in a world where this is even allowed?”

A Diary Detailing 45 Days Living Through Genocide in Palestine - Electric Literature

Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad wants her book “The Eyes of Gaza” to remind us that what she experienced is still happening in Gaza today

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 2d

i truly can't think of anything else in my lifetime that has been shoved down all of society's throats as quickly and pervasively as AI.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 2d

this is a ways out still, but for pittsburgh folks: on dec. 4, i'm going to be reading at the mount lebanon public library as part of their speaker series.

graphic with info about the mt lebanon public library speaker series: nov 13 - andrew moore; dec 1 - silas maxwell switzer; dec 2 - josh cannon; dec 4 - tyler mcandrew. all readings are @ 7pm.

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 2d

hey, working on more than one at a time is a good problem to have! i love being able to jump to something else when i'm stuck. but yeah, sometimes it pays to just dig your heels in.

Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 2d

this is kinda the whole thing. my inclination is always to keep at it. that's really the only way i've ever gotten anywhere with it. if you have a different writing project that is drawing your energy away, work on that one and then come back. the good thing is there's never any rush.

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 7d

my book has been out in the world for one month so i'm reposting (and adding to) this big thread of stuff that influenced the stories in it.

Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · Jul 28

a little over a month til my book, MY PRISONER & OTHER STORIES, comes out!

here's a small thread of other books / writers / art that influenced the stories in my book.

front cover of my forthcoming book, MY PRISONER & OTHER STORIES by tyler mcandrew

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