Description:
A Fly in the Ointment catalogues a portrait of 21st America in steady decline
Brief description: Nathan Leslie won the 2019 Washington Writers' Publishing House prize for fiction for his satirical collection of short stories, Hurry Up and Relax. Nathan's eleven previous books of fiction include Three Men, Root and Shoot, Sibs, and The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice. His collection of stories, The Invisible Hand, was published in 2022. He is also the author of a collection of poems, Night Sweat. Nathan's fiction and poetry has been published in hundreds of literary magazines such as Shenandoah, North American Review, Boulevard, Hotel Amerika, and Cimarron Review. Nathan's nonfiction has been published in The Washington Post, Kansas City Star, and Orlando Sentinel. He is the series editor of Best Small Fictions and the editor of Maryland Literary Review as well as the organizer of the Reston Readings Series. Nathan lives in Northern Virginia.