Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 27 – A Blog by Matt Love

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August 28, 2019

Reading Henry Miller’s Nonfiction

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August 26, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Swallows

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August 26, 2019

Citadel Fort

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August 22, 2019

On RV Names

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August 21, 2019

Construction Job Notes

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August 20, 2019

Bare Midriff Versus the Beer Gut

jimmy

August 19, 2019

Secret Coast Radio #7

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August 16, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Toots and Goats

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August 13, 2019

My Friends the Gulls

Steel Reserve 211 High Gravity 16fl oz

August 12, 2019

A Camper

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August 9, 2019

Nestucca Spit Press Seeks Intern

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August 8, 2019

RV Honey

Psilocybe

August 6, 2019

Psychedelic Chipmunk 4

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August 6, 2019

On Meeting David Shetzline and Discussing Heckletooth 3

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August 5, 2019

Death of a Homeless Man

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August 1, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 6

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August 1, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 5

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July 31, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 4

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July 30, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 3

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July 30, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 2

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July 29, 2019

Secret Coast Radio 1

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July 24, 2019

On Tetherball

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July 23, 2019

The Greatest Gig in Oregon History

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July 22, 2019

Secret Coast Rock Festival

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July 22, 2019

Deep into the Destroyer’s Domain

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July 18, 2019

Ricky and Cha Cha 2

The Grapes Of Wrath - 1940

July 15, 2019

On Rereading The Grapes of Wrath and the New American Diaspora

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July 15, 2019

Psychedelic Chipmunk 3

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July 15, 2019

A Mystery Fort

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July 11, 2019

Sunday Forts!

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July 10, 2019

Elk for Lunch

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July 9, 2019

Psychedelic Chipmunk 2

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July 8, 2019

Oregon City Coffee Shop

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July 6, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Acid

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July 5, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Wedding

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July 4, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: An Attempt

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July 2, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Hairstyle

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July 2, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Editor

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July 1, 2019

Oregon Tavern Age: Drain

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June 27, 2019

Androsov’s Fort

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.

Choice Cuts is available for purchase here, through Amazon, or select independent bookstores in Oregon.

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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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