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May 18, 2021

Serving God as a Freelancer and Thoughts on Journalism

May 17, 2021

Bicycling Through Homelessness (Part 3)

May 14, 2021

Bicycling Through Homelessness (Part 2)

May 13, 2021

Bicycling Through Homelessness (Part 1)

May 12, 2021

Writing as Citizenship: A New Voice (Part 2)

May 10, 2021

Writing as Citizenship: A New Voice (Part 1)

May 9, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: A Man in Crisis

May 5, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Shit Detector

May 3, 2021

Emma on the Best Length of Love Letters

April 30, 2021

A Homeless Man Reading Jean Auel

April 29, 2021

The Old General and Iceberg Lettuce

April 27, 2021

American Contradictions (A Partial List)

April 26, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Rotary Phone

April 22, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: The Mooning

April 20, 2021

Hope is Kindled by a Picnic Date

April 14, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Steve Prefontaine Smiling

April 12, 2021

Of Dogs and Meaning Book Launch

April 9, 2021

Easter Sunday Declarative Sentences

April 4, 2021

Aug. 14 Writing Workshop in Portland: Firing Up Your Writing Project

April 2, 2021

Idea for a Story: Elvis’ Dump Saves Rock and Roll

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

Serving God as a Freelancer and Thoughts on Journalism

Bicycling Through Homelessness (Part 3)

Bicycling Through Homelessness (Part 2)

Bicycling Through Homelessness (Part 1)

Citizenship in the Dystopia

Writing as Citizenship: A New Voice (Part 2)

Writing as Citizenship: A New Voice (Part 1)

In Praise of Street Libraries

Oregon Tavern Age: A Man in Crisis

Oregon Tavern Age: Shit Detector

Emma on the Best Length of Love Letters

A Homeless Man Reading Jean Auel

Oregon Tavern Age: Convoy

The Old General and Iceberg Lettuce

American Contradictions (A Partial List)

Words with No Meaning

Oregon Tavern Age: Rotary Phone

Oregon Tavern Age: The Mooning

Sunday Horseshoes in the Park

Dad and “Dover Beach”

Splayed

Hope is Kindled by a Picnic Date

Second Vaccine Shot

Oregon Tavern Age: Steve Prefontaine Smiling

Of Dogs and Meaning Book Launch

Bleacher Ruminations

Daffodils with Dad

Oregon Tavern Age: Audition

Oregon Tavern Age: Manuscript

Easter Sunday Declarative Sentences

Aug. 14 Writing Workshop in Portland: Firing Up Your Writing Project

First Dandelion

A Last Pistol River Fort

An Unwanted Conversation

Bolo Tie, God and an AR-15

An Ending

First Vaccine Shot

What’s Happening to Me?

Nicknames for Dad

Idea for a Story: Elvis’ Dump Saves Rock and Roll