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July 23, 2021

The Ultimate Literary Happiness

July 20, 2021

American Entitlement, New and Old

July 14, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Masturbation Video

July 13, 2021

Things I’ve Learned From Living Temporarily Seven Months in Portland

July 12, 2021

Recent Scenes from the Homeless

July 8, 2021

Footloose and Slaughterhouse-Five

July 7, 2021

Marine Drive Golf and Homeless Novel

July 6, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Fourth of July

July 4, 2021

Some Meditations on the 4th of July, 2021

June 30, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Keep on Rockin’ In the Free World

June 29, 2021

Things to Do in 111-degree Heat

June 28, 2021

Ode to Uncle Pinball (On the Death of My Uncle Dale)

June 24, 2021

When The Story Keeps Coming To You

June 22, 2021

Leaving Early and Rachel Kushner on Writing

June 17, 2021

Bob and Dave and Rock and Roll

June 15, 2021

A Letter About Death From My Uncle

June 4, 2021

Maybe I Should Have Done Something Else With My Professional Life

May 31, 2021

Ruminations on The Rockford Files

May 27, 2021

Mark Twain Dog Book News

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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When The Story Keeps Coming To You

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Leaving Early and Rachel Kushner on Writing

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Bob and Dave and Rock and Roll

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American Contrast

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One Hundred Stingers

Street Roots

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A Letter About Death From My Uncle

Parking Lot Exorcism

Junk Metal Trio

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Maybe I Should Have Done Something Else With My Professional Life

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Ruminations on The Rockford Files

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