Of Walking in Rain $40—Special Edition (free shipping) $20—Regular Edition (plus $3 shipping) Of Walking in Rain is a 190-page work of creative non-fiction largely written in real time that assays the ubiquitous subject of rain in Oregon in as many ways as rain falls in Oregon. The book blends an eclectic variety of literary genres, including memoir, essay, vignette, diary, reportage, guide, criticism, satire, stream of consciousness, homework, meditation, review, commentary, oral history, weather report, discography, liner notes, polemic, curriculum and confession. Of Walking in Rain also features the exquisite etchings of rain by renowned artist Frank Boyden. For $40, purchasers receive a signed softcover copy, a special bookmark crafted by the author, a button attesting membership in a super-secret organization, Rain Anonymous, dedicated to worshipping rain, two bonus essays not included in the book, and recognition at the Portland launch at Powell’s downtown on Friday, November 1. Only 100 copies of the special edition are available and only 100 people will belong to Rain Anonymous. |
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Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel. $100—Deluxe Package (free shipping) $50—Basic Package (free shipping) $20—Softcover Edition ($3 shipping) For Booksellers: Nestucca Spit Press offers bookstores the standard 60/40 rate and will pay for all shipping. Thank you for buying direct from us. Nestucca Spit Press announces the release of Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Neman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel, by Matt Love. In June 1970, the biggest movie star in the world traveled to the Oregon Coast to film an epic novel about a defiant family of loggers written by a home grown counterculture hero. The star was Paul Newman. The author was Ken Kesey. The story was Sometimes a Great Notion and it has a fanatical devotion in the Pacific Northwest. More information can be found on the home page: click here to read more » |
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The Teaching Maxims of Karl Love A special publication from Nestucca Spit Press hand-set and printed by Travis Champ at Manzanita People’s Print Shop. Limited edition of 300 copies. $10 (Free shipping)My father, Karl Love, taught masterfully for 35 years in public and private schools in Oregon and Brazil. He retired from the classroom in 1991 but it was my good fortune to teach alongside Dad at Oregon City High School during his last job. I was in my second year of teaching and felt unsure of my future in the profession. I had neither a coherent teaching philosophy nor a defined idealism. One day, I overheard Dad discussing an indifferent student with a struggling colleague. “Don’t prop up mush,” he advised. I wrote this succinct phrase down and began compiling all of Dad’s maxims on teaching because they taught me how to teach with efficiency, integrity and passion... click here to read more |
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Love & The Green Lady 200 pages, 105 photographs For Booksellers: Nestucca Spit Press offers bookstores the standard 60/40 rate and will pay for all shipping. Thank you for buying direct from us. Nestucca Spit Press announces the release of Love & The Green Lady, Meditations on the Yaquina Bay Bridge: Oregon’s Crown Jewel of Socialism, by Matt Love. Oregon opened the Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport on Labor Day 1936. Built during the New Deal, the Yaquina Bay Bridge was the aesthetic and engineering brainchild of Conde McCullough, Oregon’s State Bridge Engineer from 1919 to 1937. For 75 years the Yaquina Bay Bridge has stood magnificently as a monument to excellence in architecture and how a partnership between state and federal government in the throes of an economic calamity can produce something practical, beautiful, and lasting. It is nothing less than an Oregon landmark and a powerful reminder how to build a great bridge. Click here to read more |
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Chance of Sun 176 pages, 5 ½” x 8 ½”, paperback, ISBN 978-09744364-6-3 For Booksellers: Nestucca Spit Press offers bookstores the standard 60/40 rate and will pay for all shipping. Thank you for buying direct from us.In her debut as an author, Findling’s memoir unfolds the story of an Oregon girl coming of age in the 1970s and 80s, navigating her way through pick-up trucks, dive bars, higher education and backwoods trails before finding a place she belongs. Beginning with her childhood in Coos County, Findling relates a rural unbringing spent walking beaches and hiking in the woods with her forester father, attending summer camp just over the hill from the Oregon Country Fair, road-tripping to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with schoolmates, and learning about the fickleness of love in campgrounds, beer joints and on the University of Oregon campus. Yet, following a move to Oregon’s biggest city after college, Findling lost her way and her connection to Oregon’s landscape, becoming caught up in the drugs and booze that flowed so freely in Portland’s restaurant scene. But it was Oregon that helped Findling find herself again later, this time on the east side of the mountains, where she found clarity in High Desert trails and a wide-open sky, as well as life’s most grounding phenomenon—love. Click here to read more |
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Gimme Refuge: Order a special edition of Gimme Refuge signed by author Matt Love and illustrator Cindy Popp for $30 available only through Nestucca Spit Press. The edition also features an elegant bookmark hand printed on a letter press. Gimme Refuge opens with Love’s first teaching day in 1989 and moves forward to 1998 when he taught at Neskowin Valley School and simultaneously assumed the duty as caretaker of the refuge, a former dairy farm in dire need of restoration. The book concludes ten years later when Love left the refuge after losing a public fight to limit public access to the grounds. |
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Gimme Refuge:
177 pages, 17 illustrations For Booksellers Nestucca Spit Press offers bookstores the standard 60/40 rate and will pay for all shipping. Thank you for buying direct from us. “I consider my role as caretaker as the greatest one of my life. I had a direct hand in planting some 15,000 trees on the refuge and it’s awesome to think that they’ll long outlive anything I’ve ever written,” said Love. |
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Super Sunday in Newport
157 pages,
5 ½” x 8 ½” paperback For Booksellers Nestucca Spit Press offers bookstores the standard 60/40 rate and will pay for all shipping. Thank you for buying direct from us. Super Sunday in Newport features 46 pieces originally written for the weekly open mic sessions at Café Mundo in Nye Beach. It mixes memoir, polemic, vignette, essay and photographs to create a unique personal portrait of Newport and unconventional narrative of Love’s transitional year. |
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Citadel of the Spirit: 500 pages, 6” x 9” hardback Both editions contain 63 original essays by many of the state’s finest writers and 61 excerpts from primary documents related to Oregon history. The title derives from a quote by Ken Kesey, “Oregon is the citadel of the spirit.” This is a one time only print run of 200 hardbound limited-edition copies. SPECIAL LIMITED-EDITION |
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Citadel of the Spirit: 500 page,
6” x 9” paperback Citadel of the Spirit boasts an impressive roster of literary talent. Some of the better-known writers who contributed essays for the anthology include: Gina Ochsner, Kathleen Dean Moore, Michael Strelow, David Horowitz, Kim Stafford, Walt Curtis, Ken Babbs, Bart King, Ellen Waterston, Jeff Baker, Kassten Alonso, Katrine Barber, Joanna Rose, Brian Doyle, Melissa Madenski, Cheryl Strayed, Erin Ergenbright, and Monica Drake. |
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Old Nehalem Road 6" x 9" paperback Featuring thirty poems, all set in Oregon, Old Nehalem Road represents a remarkable literary debut for a 25-year-old poet. ---- Travis Champ set all the type for the book, printed its pages on a hundred-year-old press, and bound all three hundred copies of the first edition print run.
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Red
Hot and Rollin’: 6" x 9" paperback On June 5, 1977 the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Philadelphia 76-ers to win their first and only NBA Championship. The next day, two hundred and fifty thousand fans jammed downtown Portland to celebrate in what remains the largest public gathering in Oregon history. A good social disease known as Blazermania and an electrifying community energy known as Rip City had overtaken an entire state. |
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The Far Out Story
of Vortex I ISBN 0-9744364-1-0 The Far Out Story of Vortex I documented the 1970 free rock festival held in Oregon that holds the distinction of being the first and only state sanctioned, state sponsored event of its kind in American history. |
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Grasping Wastrels
vs. 5.5" x 7.5" paperback Grasping Wastrels vs. Beaches Forever Inc.: Covering the Fights for the Soul of the Oregon Coast, released in 2003, consisted of a collection of my personal essays exploring the special heritage of Oregon’s publicly-owned ocean beaches and the ongoing struggle to conserve them. |
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Salt:
A Collection
of Poetry on the
Oregon Coast Price $10
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