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Matt Love

Mar

21

2012

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‘One Rainy Night in 1970’ — Matt Love Talks About ‘Sometimes a Great Movie’

In his forthcoming book, Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel, Oregon Coast author/publisher Matt Love blends reportage, memoir, oral history and film criticism, along with 125 photographs from the filming of Sometimes a Great Notion. In this essay, Love tells us about two tavern scenes that …

Dec

14

2011

28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List: Day 14. Matt Love

Matt Love is the publisher of Nestucca Spit Press and the author/editor of seven books about Oregon, including Gimme Refuge: The Education of a Caretaker and Love & The Green Lady. Brian Doyle called him “nutty brilliant” on Day 3 of this series. We have noticed that when people write about Love and his work, …

Jul

14

2011

Love for Love and His Green Lady

The BookBroads over at Broadway Books in Portland tipped us off about a new book by the passionate Oregon Coast author/publisher/teacher/Powell’s blogger Matt Love. They describe Love & The Green Lady: Meditations on the Yaquina Bay Bridge: Oregon’s Crown Jewel of Socialism thusly: “The new book blends an eclectic variety of literary genres, including memoir, …

Sep

6

2010

Should Love Reprint the Far-Out Story?

Matt Love has a great blog post this week, in which he brags about his first published book, The Far Out Story of Vortex 1, which is exactly what the title makes it sound like. I had forgotten all about Vortex. Somehow I missed the book, but now I’ve got to find a copy. So …

Aug

23

2010

Love for Ooligan's Oregon Stories

It doesn’t get much more Oregon than Matt Love reviewing the new sesquicentennial-celebrating compilation by Portland State University’s Ooligan Press. Yes, sixteen of the contributors are Love’s students at Newport High. And, yes, he is one proud Papa. But this really is a book we Oregonians should get behind, full of grit and fun, like a …

Aug

19

2010

Lessons in Blackberries

One of the nicest things about Matt Love’s blog is that he writes about himself only as a means to report someone else’s achievements. Last month it was a fisherman who wouldn’t eat his own catch, so he gave it to Matt, and kept giving to him for over a year. Yesterday, Matt posted a …

Jun

15

2010

Don't Get No More Oregon Than That!

Read Matt Love's spirited (does Matt Love write any other way?!?) paean to the novels of Oregonian Don Berry on the Powell's blog. The trilogy Trask, Moontrap and To Build a Ship, all set in pioneer-era Oregon, were reprinted a few year Endometriosis Bible & Violet Protocol s ago by Oregon State University Press. Love …

Apr

1

2010

In Which We Talk with Matt Love

Matt Love is one of those rare mythical beasts who publishes his own books and then sells them with the kind of zeal that borders on rock-n-roll. Founded in 2003, his Nestucca Spit Press has published eight books about Oregon so far, including The Beaver State Trilogy and Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology, …

Mar

4

2010

For the Love of Matt Love

Check out Matt Love’s recent post, How to Become a Real Oregonian, on the Powell’s Blog (WARNING: MAY CONTAIN NUDITY). Love’s latest book (self-published by his own Nestucca Spit Press) is Super Sunday in Newport: Notes From My First Year in Town. As if we needed proof that Love is a consummate Oregonian, he is …

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