Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 34 – A Blog by Matt Love

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October 23, 2018

On Finding James Baldwin

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October 22, 2018

Dear Friend of the Meditations Blog:

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October 19, 2018

Still Teaching

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October 18, 2018

Cordelia Crow

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October 17, 2018

More Notes for the Coffee Shop Novel

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October 16, 2018

Some Truths

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October 15, 2018

Two Homeless Men

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October 13, 2018

Morning Walk

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October 12, 2018

More Notes for the Christian Coffee Shop Novel

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October 11, 2018

My Friends the Gulls

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October 10, 2018

Mercy (Part 2)

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October 9, 2018

Mercy (Part 1)

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October 8, 2018

Rain Things

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October 6, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: The Hearing

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October 5, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Screwdriver Western

October 4, 2018

Thoughts on Seething

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October 3, 2018

Idea for a Novel, Possibly Erotic

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October 2, 2018

A Window Washing Tale (Part 2)

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October 1, 2018

A Window Washing Tale (Part 1)

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September 29, 2018

The Clearcut (Part 3)

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September 28, 2018

The Clearcut (Part 2)

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September 27, 2018

The Clearcut (Part 1)

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September 26, 2018

Contrails

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September 25, 2018

On Raking Leaves (Part 2)

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September 24, 2018

On Raking Leaves (Part 1)

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September 22, 2018

Some Oregon Reporting Questions to Ask

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September 21, 2018

Random Coffee Shop Novel Notes

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September 20, 2018

A Recent Conversation with My Father

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September 19, 2018

River Coffee Shop Novel Notes

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September 18, 2018

Oregon City on the Mind

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September 17, 2018

Rain Coffee Shop Novel Notes

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September 14, 2018

Christian Coffee Shop Notes

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September 13, 2018

Youngs Bay Wine Shop Notes

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September 12, 2018

Meditations on a Dump Run (Part 3)

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September 11, 2018

Meditations on a Dump Run (Part 2)

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September 10, 2018

Meditations on a Dump Run (Part 1)

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September 9, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Summer Afternoon

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September 8, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Fishing

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September 7, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Anxiety

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September 6, 2018

Oregon Tavern Age: Dive Bar Disquisition

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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.

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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.

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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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