Nathan Tyree: Even Edgier Waters

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Yesterday I received a contract for an upcoming anthology that will feature one of my stories. The anthology, from Social Disease Books, is called 3AM: London; New York; Paris. It’s being edited by A. Stevens (of 3:AM Magazine, of course) and will be comprised of stories that are somehow inspired by the three great cities listed in the title. My story, which focuses on New York (my new favorite city), is called “Morning in Alphabet City”.

This book is the follow up to the previous 3:AM anthology, The Edgier Waters.

It will likely be quite some time until the book is out, but seeing (and signing) the contract is always what makes a project like this seem real (and sort of inevitable) to me.

I’ll try to keep everyone updated as this one progresses.

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Nathan Tyree: Illness

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On the train back from New York I started to get ill. I have all the symptoms of the common cold, which is uncommonly tenacious. Every time I think that I am over the hump, as they say, my fever returns and my sinuses close up. I have a wet, loud cough and a pressure headache that could fell a moose. Not to put too fine a point on it: I feel like shit.

Being at work makes it all the worse.

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Nathan Tyree: Minimum wage

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Opponents on the minimum wage have long argued that it depresses hiring. economists David Card and Alan Krueger did a study that compared New Jersey (which raised its wage) and Pennsylvania (which didn't. The results blew minimum wage haters out of the water. New Jersey actuall saw decreases in unemployment and little inflation. PA had the opposite.

In 2002 Oregon made a substantial increase to the state minimum wage. Despite the doomsday predictions of right wingers, unemployment actually shrank and the state saw inflation remain at the same rate it had been before.

It is a tricky subject, one has to first realize that how much people earn has nothing to do with inflation. Inflation is a function of the relative value of a currency. How much workers are paid is in fact an effect of inflation (or deflation), not a cause of it.

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Nathan Tyree: Shorts

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Mr. Overby Recedes, the "Lost" Chapter of Mr. Overby is Falling is now available as an Amazon Short for the rock bottom price of 49 cents.

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Nathan Tyree: Home Again

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Finally home.
The Reading was great. Ned Vizzini asked me to sign his copy of the book. Paul Blaney was genius, and instntly likeable. Jackie Corley is sweet and infinitely cool.

More later.

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