Nathan Leslie

• Sep-2000
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This collection of contemporary literary car stories has something for everyone: humor, tragedy, irony, pity, anger, apathy- as well as well-developed character studies and new perspectives on the human condition. Leslie writes with a clear voice and...

• Nov-2002
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In his debut collection of short fiction, Nathan Leslie delivers a dark and scathing portrait of contemporary American society. Here, each gothic story reveals the vicious division of the sexes that lurks behind the glossy exterior of our everyday li...

• Oct-2003
• / General Fiction
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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 Nat...

• Sep-2007
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• Oct-2007
• / General Fiction
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A reverse negative is a photographic image in negative light, which also appears literally reversed. In a sense, it may be a double removal from the "reality" of the photograph. In the title piece of Reverse Negative, the female narrator says, "This ...

• Jul-2008
• / General Fiction
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This print anthology compiles the best fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that online literary journals have to offer in an eclectic collection in the manner of other broad-ranging anthologies such as the Pushcart Prize and The Best American Non-Requ...

• Nov-2012
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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 h...

• Apr-2014
• / Literary
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The thematically intertwined stories in Nathan Leslie's Sibs, the author's seventh collection, center around brothers and sisters. Often gritty and vivid, we see siblings bond, scrap, and everything in between. Many of these intense stories revolve a...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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"Root and Shoot" offers fifty two of Nathan Leslie's best new flash and short fiction pieces. Featuring stories published in "Boulevard, Shenandoah, Gargoyle, Red Rock Review, JMWW, Hobart" and "Cimarron Review," among many others, "Root and Shoot" p...

• Oct-2015
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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 ...

• Jul-2017
• / General Fiction
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“One of the truly exciting writers of his generation.” -- Richard Burgin. Within this collection of three novellas Nathan Leslie explores issues of masculinity, nascent maturity and work. In “Arrow East” a young man hears the pleas of his mo...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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In these 23 darkly comic short stories, Nathan Leslie portrays self-appointedd cops, shoplifting teens, gym rats, praformers, polyamorous gamers, Bob-obsessed friend-collectors, hug phobics, online talkers, dinosaur erotica writing gurus, and self-me...

• Nov-2019
• / General Fiction
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The Best Small Fictions anthology, now in its fifth year, presents one hundred and forty-­six pristinely crafted pieces from an array of authors representing twenty-­six nations and six continents. These short, elliptical works are varied and ed...

• Oct-2021
• / General Fiction
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The 2021 volume of Best Small Fictions presents its richest collection of stories yet. These short works capture in all their multifaceted glory, the singular times in which we live. At times hilarious, catastrophic, philosophical -- and ever origina...

• Nov-2022
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• Nov-2022
• / General Fiction
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In The Invisible Hand Nathan Leslie turns his eye towards fathers. Within these pages you will find strange and caustic stories of wayward, eccentric and obstinate fathers. Told with an eye towards askew details, Leslie's collection builds upon his r...

• May-2023
• / General Fiction
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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 ...