Format Paperback Subject Literary Collections Publisher Hamilton Stone Editions

Drivers

Literature & Fiction

Leslie, Nathan

Literary

Hamilton Stone Editions

Hailed as "original, inventive, and rich in tales that amuse, delight, and move" and "a collection that gets under the skin quickly," A Cold Glass of Milk, by Nathan Leslie, is published by Uccelli Press of Seattle, WA. 
The stories included in Nathan Leslie’s A Cold Glass of Milk originate from a variety of richly individuated characters, including pretentious ballet teachers, children whose best friend is a tree, goat tenders, taco makers, tacky art salesmen, mushroom hunters, and nudie car models. We witness the construction, destruction, and reconstruction of various family units. Each speaker invites us into their experiences as honestly as they know how, inviting the reader to relive with them the details of their life, as if verbalization was their last hope to make order out of the seemingly senseless plethora of details that make up their (and our) collective experience. 
The stories coalesce around such unifying motifs as the issue of how we learn to define ourselves in modern American culture by what we buy, what we do for a living, who we sleep with, what we want or don’t want. Readers will find themselves forced to redefine their definition of "normality." The speakers in Leslie’s stories do what all good characters are supposed to: They take us out of our familiar world, show us something new, and then, as we are leaving, we turn for one quick look back and recognize ourselves in the losers who want so desperately to win, losers who don’t know they’re losers, losers who can’t afford to lose one more thing.

A Cold Glass of Milk

Contemporary

Uccelli Pr

Night Sweat

Poetry

Fiction. When Tommy's parents abandon him as a baby, his grandmother Gaga takes him to her reclusive house at the top of Pike's Peak. Gaga's parenting methods are extreme, but Tommy soon learns her eccentricities are nothing compared to the rest of his family. As he's passed between his outlandish aunts, Tommy's journey takes him to the country homestead of Aunt Tess (who hides surprising objects in her voluminous hair), the four city houses of Aunt Penny (who prefers to communicate by ESP), and the cave-like desert home of Aunt Chelsea the coyote hunter. As his cross-country romp reveals how bizarrely different families can be, Tommy begins to wonder if the conventional home he's dreamed of might not be for him after all. THE TALL TALE OF TOMMY TWICE captures the unmoored feelings of young adulthood and the complexities of American identity. It's a dazzling novel about the ineffability of childhood and the nature of family and relationships in the increasingly rootless American experience.

The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice

Atticus Books

A Fly in the Ointment: Short Stories

A Fly in the Ointment catalogues a portrait of 21st Century America in steady decline. The wayward protagonists within these short stories are barely able to cope, and when they do it is with substantial assistance. This collection is populated with sketchy ne-er-do-wells who attempt to defraud the public with fake rocks or snake oil. Families barely function. Individuals seek some means of eccentric hope (miniature horses, competitive eating contests, nail fungus removal). They fixate on image and appearance and trivialities, while they lose jobs and loved-ones. They tamp down skeletons in the closet. The ethically blind lead the ethically blind.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Loyola College/Apprentice House

Believers is a short story collection that vividly examines surprising people and their belief systems. Leslie’s intricate stories delve into the often odd behaviors of snake handlers and voodoo specialists, mystical new age preachers, agnostics and hermits, prophets and jazz junkies, and born-again tapestry collectors. All believe deeply in their various gods.

Believers

Pocol Press

Hurry Up and Relax: Stories

Humor & Satire

Washington Writers' Publishing House

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