{"id":7681,"date":"2022-03-14T07:11:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2022-03-14T07:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:11:03","slug":"twenty-years-of-nestucca-spit-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/twenty-years-of-nestucca-spit-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Years of Nestucca Spit Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7681\" data-postid=\"7681\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7681 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Twenty years ago this spring I launched Nestucca Spit Press to publish\/present <em>Let It Pour<\/em>, a web site chronicling dive tavern and bars on the Oregon Coast. It finally left this world a year ago after I decided not to renew the domain name. Most of the joints were gone or gentrified anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, I never dreamed that two decades later NSP would have published almost 30 books\/publications ranging from poetry to fiction to memoir to history to pamphlets to magazines and sold\/distributed almost 40,000 literary items across the region and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to thank all the purchasers and readers of NSP publications. You kept an independent Oregon publisher going, and it was especially important to me as a person during a dark and dangerous time not that long ago. I never stopped writing and the writing took on a different, better path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, NSP will publish a fantastic and groundbreaking book of non fiction written by Drew Kaza called <em>High Contrast<\/em>, set in 1972, about Jefferson High School&#8217;s remarkable basketball championship season featuring an all Black team victory over an all white Baker City squad. It was a cultural landmark and a story of racial relations more relevant today than it was 50 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a favor to ask. To support NSP and its unique editorial mission, will you consider purchasing a title through the web site\/blog, or make a contribution in support of the blog, or purchase some of the new print and e-book titles available on Amazon. Link here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Matt-Love\/e\/B01MFFK8XS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&#038;qid=1647207679&#038;sr=1-1\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for considering. I look forward to leading NSP into its third decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A special thanks to Lena, Amira, Cindy, Shannon, Erin, Pioneer Printing and Brandy for all the help over the years. It always has been, and always will be, a collaborative effort.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago this spring I launched Nestucca Spit Press to publish\/present Let It Pour, a web site chronicling dive tavern and bars on the Oregon Coast. It finally left this world a year ago after I decided not to renew the domain name. Most of the joints were gone or gentrified anyway. 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