He was an creator, poet & film critic.

He co-authored The Young and Evil (Obelisk Press, 1933) with Charles Henri Ford, an energetically experimental novel with perceptible debts to fellow Villager Djuna Barnes, and too to Gertrude Stein, who known as it "the novel that beat the Beat Generation by a generation."

a writer for the journal Film Culture, Tyler is one of the pack film critics to write extensively in experimental film and underground film. His Screening the Sexes is thought to exist as a number one book-length survey of homosexuality in film.

Links