NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT: June 6, 2009
Nestucca Spit Press
8575 SW Abalone St / South Beach, OR 97366
503-812-1524
www.nestuccaspitpress.com
Contact: Matt Love, love@nestuccaspitpress.com
Super Sunday in Newport:
Notes From My First Year in Town
by Matt Love
Nestucca Spit Press is pleased to present its newest release, Super Sunday in Newport: Notes From My First Year in Town, by Matt Love.
After ten years serving as caretaker of the Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Tillamook County, Love moved to Newport and began a new chapter in his life. “When I left the refuge I wasn’t sure I would continue to write with the same intensity. But I adapted quickly to my new home and found the area rich with stories. Very rich.”
Super Sunday in Newport features 46 pieces originally written for the weekly open mic sessions at Café Mundo in Nye Beach. It mixes memoir, polemic, vignette, essay and photographs to create a unique personal portrait of Newport and unconventional narrative of Love’s transitional year.
“Most of what is written about Newport is strictly for tourists. I like to think that no one has observed Newport quite like I have and that the book offers fresh insights into one of the greatest towns in Oregon. It’s a personal story too, about some of the wonderful, excruciating and fantastic things that happened to me in that first year,” said Love.
Whether it was encountering a mysterious coyote on the beach, documenting tavern life, browsing thrift stores, teaching high school English, commenting on Oregon and national politics, sharing his passion for the Oregon Coast’s public beaches, or coping with a freak tragedy that befell one of his dogs, Love observes the people and places of Newport with passion, insight, humor and an informed view of history.
Super Sunday in Newport represents the follow up to Love’scritically acclaimed and bestselling Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology. He’s also the the author/editor of the Beaver State Trilogy, an investigation of Oregon in the 1960s and 1970s. Love lives in South Beach at the Oregon Coast and is the founder and publisher of Nestucca Spit Press. He teaches English and journalism at Newport High School and serves as Director of Writers on the Edge, a Newport based literary arts organization. He also contributes columns to the Oregonian and Oregon Coast Today and writes the “On Oregon” blog for Powells.com.
Super Sunday in Newport: Notes From My First Year in Town, by Matt Love, $15, 157 pages, 5 ½” x 8 ½”, paperback, ISBN 978-0-9744364-6-3
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