Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 14 – A Blog by Matt Love

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October 18, 2021

Leica Man

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October 15, 2021

Blue Heron Musings

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October 13, 2021

A Football and a Novel

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October 11, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Story Development

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October 7, 2021

Random October Thoughts

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October 5, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Friday Afternoon

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October 4, 2021

Amazon Man

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September 29, 2021

Leaping Coho

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September 27, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Exhaustion and Laughter

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September 24, 2021

Friends of Meditations (Heather the Writer)

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September 22, 2021

On Self Righteousness and Perry Mason

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September 21, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: And So It Goes

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September 20, 2021

Hail to Ace Hardware

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September 15, 2021

Sunday Morning

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September 14, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Vampire Pat

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September 13, 2021

Of Not Walking in Rain

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September 10, 2021

My New Literary Endeavor: The New American Diaspora

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September 9, 2021

Animal Stories

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September 8, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: Vodka, Cream and Crown

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September 7, 2021

Corona Virus Thoughts #25

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September 6, 2021

The Gypsy Boys Rock Out!

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September 2, 2021

Book Chat and Rachel Ward

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September 1, 2021

The Old Crow Book Club: Another Chapter

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August 31, 2021

The Old Crow Book Club is Formed

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August 30, 2021

Tennis Lesson II

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August 26, 2021

The Falcon and the Woman

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August 25, 2021

Recent Scenes From the Rose City

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August 24, 2021

Tennis Lesson

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August 23, 2021

Scooter Woman

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August 19, 2021

Coffee Shop Writing—Dogs!

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August 18, 2021

Bleacher Seats and Salad Days

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August 17, 2021

Bench Man (Part 1)

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August 16, 2021

The Sheltering Sky and Book Chat Man

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August 13, 2021

Cape Sebastian Man

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August 12, 2021

The End of Endings

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August 11, 2021

Oregon Tavern Age: The End

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August 10, 2021

Faces in a Car

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August 9, 2021

A Visit to Oregon City

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August 5, 2021

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

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August 4, 2021

The Old Crow Literary Circle

NEVER STOP PRE

The Enduring Inspiration of America's Greatest Sports Legend

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"Never stop Pre. When he's no longer relevant in Oregon, Oregon is dead."

On May 31, 1975, Coos Bay, Oregon native Steve Prefontaine died in an automobile accident. At the time of his death, he held 14 American records in distance running.

Pre was 24 years old and already a legend in Oregon and the world of track of field.

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The Old Crow

Book Club

In December of 2020, author Matt Love moved to Portland to care for his elderly father.

Returning to the Rose City jolted Love after 23 years residing on the Oregon Coast. In the Sellwood neighborhood where he lived, Love met a homeless man named Mark. They formed a friendship over literature and the unforeseen magical discoveries in street libraries. They created The Old Crow Book Club, and yes, sometimes that involved drinking Old Crow on a sidewalk.

The club also included several other Sellwood homeless men and women cut from John Steinbeck's Cannery Row cloth.

In due course, Love learned the members' stories of homelessness and how they survived. He wondered what happened to his beloved state of Oregon and attempted to help Mark get off the streets only to run up against the seemingly futile policies to address the crisis.

Along the way, he had the best conversations about books in his life and wrote The Old Crow Book Club, where he recounts his interactions with the homeless people in his neighborhood and offers some suggestions how to alleviate what he considers the greatest man-made American humanitarian disaster of his adult life.

The Old Crow Book Club is available for purchase here and select independent bookstores in Oregon.

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Choice Cuts

of Oregon Fiction

Choice Cuts of Oregon Fiction by Matt Love contains 20 stories, all set in Oregon. The cast of characters includes a depressed Santa Claus, Steve Prefontaine, Jack Ramsay's fast break offense, socialist squirrels, a clearcut, a dead deer, a junior high football team, a high school tennis player, a dissipated teacher, a man who evolves into a beaver, a homeless vet, a jilted preacher, a double date to a prom, rural degenerates, a wily caterer, and much more.

The publication of the collection culminates a quarter century of the author's writing about Oregon and rambling around the state.

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The Savage

of State Street

Nestucca Spit Press is proud to present The Savage of State Street: The Thieving and Literary Lives of Smoky Epley. He is the greatest unheralded writer in Oregon history and also one of its more mediocre, colorful and persistent thieves.

In 1973, Oregon State University Press published Men in Exile: An Anthology of Creative Writing by Inmates of the Oregon State Penitentiary. Twenty-two of Smoky Epley's pieces appeared in the book.

Smoky spent most of his adult life in state and federal prisons for robbery. In 2008, during one of his brief stints of freedom, Smoky became friends with Matt Love, an Oregon author and publisher. They met after Love discovered Men in Exile and wrote a newspaper column about the landmark book. Smoky read the column and reached out.

He returned to prison in 2009 after forging a check. Upon his release in 2011, Love encouraged Smoky to write a memoir. He completed half of Auto before dying in February of 2013.

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Sonny the husky discovers a homeless encampment destroying a creek in a Portland city park. She alerts her owner and a park ranger and inspires a community clean-up of the damaged riparian area. Neighborhood citizens and residents of the encampment join Sonny to restore a tiny part of a watershed and later celebrate their collaboration.

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