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Of Dogs and Meaning

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At last, a dog book where the dog doesn't die. Finally, a dog book where all dogs live forever.

In Of Dogs and Meaning's 100 pages, Oregon writer Matt Love let's his creative mind off leash to explore everything real and metaphorically canine in our culture. During this wild, meandering romp accompanied by ink stamp illustrations, Love leaves his singular marks, call them intellectual whizzes, on a vast, eclectic and entertaining range of subjects connected to dogs.

Ever see a dog go nuts one when it visits the beach for the first time? Imagine an author with supreme doggedness doing exactly that with a subject and you have Of Dogs and Meaning running through material such as as: Rescue dogs. Trail of Tears. WC Fields. Grapes of Wrath. Human dog pounds. Barack Obama. Carlos Castaneda. Dorothy Parker. Orson Welles. Michael Vick. John Wick. Richard Nixon. Hitler. Dog funerals. Steve Martin. Shakespeare. Jennifer Beals. Lord Byron. Wendy and Lucy. Charles Bukowski. Isak Dinesen. Willy Vlautin. The Odyssey. Franz Kafka. The Underdog. Sirius. Rush. God.

Love, the author of over 20 books, merges multiple literary genres, including essay, meditation, fiction, commentary and memoir to create, well...a mutt of a book!

A special limited print edition of 300 signed copies sold exclusively on this site and at select Oregon bookstores.

The book costs $20 (with $4 for shipping).

Special price for purchasing two copies: $30 (with $5 for shipping)

Thank you for supporting an independent Oregon publisher and making literature more sustainable.

PIONEER PRIDE: AN OREGON CITY MEMOIR

Pioneer Pride: An Oregon City Memoir is a book published in serialized form on the Nestucca Spit Press Meditations Blog. It chronicles my growing up in Oregon City in the 70s and early 80s and features stories about hackey sack, calligraphy, football, tennis, the Promenade, journalism, salmon, crushes, coaches, text from my journals in high school, and my observing and interacting with a unique Christian sect, the Oregon City Followers of Christ Church, or the Kissers. $10-$20

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