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September 27, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Exhaustion and Laughter

September 24, 2021

Friends of Meditations (Heather the Writer)

September 22, 2021

On Self Righteousness and Perry Mason

September 21, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: And So It Goes

September 20, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Vampire Pat

September 13, 2021

My New Literary Endeavor: The New American Diaspora

September 9, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Vodka, Cream and Crown

September 7, 2021

The Old Crow Book Club: Another Chapter

August 31, 2021

The Old Crow Book Club is Formed

August 30, 2021

Recent Scenes From the Rose City

August 24, 2021

The Sheltering Sky and Book Chat Man

August 13, 2021

Things People Living in Homeless Encampments Have That I Wouldn’t Mind Having

August 4, 2021

Corona Virus Thoughts: The Olympic Games

July 29, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Red Meat Memory

July 26, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Double Screwdriver Makeout Sunday

July 23, 2021

Book Chat Man’s Review

Of Dogs and Meaning

Of Dogs and Meaning Cover

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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On Self Righteousness and Perry Mason

Oregon Tavern Age: And So It Goes

Hail to Ace Hardware

Sunday Morning

Oregon Tavern Age: Vampire Pat

Of Not Walking in Rain

Animal Stories

Oregon Tavern Age: Vodka, Cream and Crown

Corona Virus Thoughts #25

The Gypsy Boys Rock Out!

Book Chat and Rachel Ward

The Old Crow Book Club: Another Chapter

The Old Crow Book Club is Formed

Tennis Lesson II

The Falcon and the Woman

Recent Scenes From the Rose City

Tennis Lesson

Scooter Woman

Coffee Shop Writing—Dogs!

Bleacher Seats and Salad Days

Bench Man (Part 1)

The Sheltering Sky and Book Chat Man

Cape Sebastian Man

The End of Endings

Oregon Tavern Age: The End

Faces in a Car

A Visit to Oregon City

Things People Living in Homeless Encampments Have That I Wouldn’t Mind Having

The Old Crow Literary Circle

The Putting Green

Corona Virus Thoughts: The Olympic Games

Ass, Fangs and a Tiara

Fuck Off Nosey

Oregon Tavern Age: Red Meat Memory

Oregon Tavern Age: Double Screwdriver Makeout Sunday

The Beer Chaser Blog

Book Chat Man’s Review