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

Literature & Fiction

Leslie, Nathan

Contemporary

Uccelli Pr

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Country of Memory

FISHMAN, CHARLES

Poetry

A stunning first book of spirit-lifting poems using the Sonoran desert as environmental backdrop. The 28 poems are divided into six sections and vary from short lyric gems to a tour-de-force long narrative poem. Drawing from, but not dependent on a Buddhist heritage of symbology and ideas, these poems ripple in the mind and expand after each reading like the wakes created by a stone skipping over a calm pond. Complete with a glossary of terms that may be unfamiliar to readers.

A Stone Blessing

Cox, Luis T.

Cox, T. Luis

The settings of these stories - 1980s New York City, 1950s Brooklyn, Las Vegas, an exurban town post-9/11 - are as diverse as the rich palette of characters drawn with heart, humor, and sensuality. With a sharp sense of the telling detail, Deborah Batterman weaves narratives around the everyday symbols in our world and their resonance in our lives.

Shoes Hair Nails

Deborah Batterman

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A Cold Glass of Milk

Country of Memory

A Stone Blessing

Shoes Hair Nails