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Tyler Mcmahon

Goodreads Author

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: 3.88 · 530 ratings · 116 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	How the Mistakes Were Made 3.86 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 2011 — 10 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 3.92 avg rating — 72 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
	Surfing's Greatest Misadventures by Paul Diamond, Tyler Mcmahon (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 62 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
	One Potato 3.85 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2022 — 6 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 3.95 avg rating — 19 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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Tyler Mcmahon liked Carrie's review of One Potato: "A scientist in the potato industry is assigned to travel outside of the US to investigate if an condition found in the children of a family is related to the potatoes his company created. The destination country is in the middle of a revolution, so t" Read more of this review »
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Tyler Mcmahon liked Nancy's review of One Potato: "Potatoes, genetically engineered perfect fries, in a vending machine, seriously?? I’M IN!! A great audiobook! Funny. Dark. Sarcastic. Genetically engineered potatoes? YESSS! I need to know where this could possibly be going!! Three children who walk " Read more of this review »
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Tyler Mcmahon liked Debby's review of One Potato: "This book was a nonstop comedy of errors. I greatly enjoyed the ride. Read my full review here. #NetGalley #DreamscapeMedia #OnePotato"
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Tyler Mcmahon liked Morgan Davis's review of One Potato: "3.5 This was a fun listen! Eddie is sent to a small South American country to investigate a human anomaly that is supposedly caused by his company’s potatoes. An entire family of children are walking on their hands and feet, bear crawl style. This is " Read more of this review »
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“It's not hard to confuse love and hate.”
― Tyler McMahon, How the Mistakes Were Made

tags: hate, love

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“The mass hallucination of the twentieth century is this: that all these national governments, which each year kill or threaten way more humans than they protect, and take a big chunk of your income to do so, are for some reason a great idea, an inevitable force of fucking nature.”
― Tyler Mcmahon, How the Mistakes Were Made

tags: government, politics-of-the-united-states

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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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“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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