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 …
“While I grew up on the western edge of the Chicago suburbs, I still found much of my own story of growing up on the pages of Findling’s memoir. Her youth is perhaps the one I imagined myself having, in a land of ocean beaches and pine trees. There is more to it than the …
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, …
Writing a book is like setting loose a message in a bottle. No way of knowing if it will reach your intended audience, or any audience at all, for that matter. Literary tides are fickle; the winds of reading whim are unpredictable. Your message could go anywhere, or nowhere. The writer controls the writing, and …
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, …
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, …
