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May 25, 2022

Ruminations on the Recent Primary Election

May 18, 2022

A New Poet for Oregon—Lee Meier

May 11, 2022

For the Good of the Writing Order

May 6, 2022

Hummingbirds in the Apple Tree

May 2, 2022

Denis Johnson and a Writing Methodology for the Homeless Crisis

April 1, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Roz is Gone

March 30, 2022

The Case of the Sinister Slice

March 25, 2022

May 7 Writing Workshop in Portland: “Firing Up Your Writing Project”

March 23, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Revenge of the Watershed

March 21, 2022

Rewatching All the President’s Men

March 17, 2022

Twenty Years of Nestucca Spit Press

March 13, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Blow Job (the drink)

March 9, 2022

The Storytelling Genius of Gunsmoke

February 28, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Brownsville Newspaper

Of Dogs and Meaning

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)

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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

The Gigging Life: Lessons Learned on the Literary Road

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The Great Birthright:
An Oregon Novel

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Birthday Present

Coffee Shop Eavesdropping

Ruminations on the Recent Primary Election

Notes for a Short Story

Conversation in a Coin Shop

A New Poet for Oregon—Lee Meier

Pendleton: A Short Story

For the Good of the Writing Order

Oregon Tavern Age: Trails Inn

Hummingbirds in the Apple Tree

Sunday Morning Walk

More Nail Shop Meditations

Fast Break (Part 5)

Fast Break (Part 4)

Fast Break (Part 3)

Fast Break (Part 2)

Fast Break (Part 1)

On Instant Judgment

The 90s

Cosmic Forces?

Oregon Tavern Age: MIA

A Dandelion

Denis Johnson and a Writing Methodology for the Homeless Crisis

Oregon Tavern Age: Roz is Gone

Final Corona Virus Thoughts

The Case of the Sinister Slice

Killing Time

May 7 Writing Workshop in Portland: “Firing Up Your Writing Project”

Oregon Tavern Age: Revenge of the Watershed

Rewatching All the President’s Men

Sweet Socialism Birthday

Oregon Tavern Age: Birthday

Twenty Years of Nestucca Spit Press

Sartre on My Writing Mind

Oregon Tavern Age: Blow Job (the drink)

Walking in Snow

Signature Gatherer

Empire Records

The Storytelling Genius of Gunsmoke

Oregon Tavern Age: Brownsville Newspaper