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07.20: Matt Love & Tim Sproul
2015-06-16 23:04:40| Powells Books Events Calendar
Matt Love's A Nice Piece of Astoria (Nestucca Spit Press) is a work of creative nonfiction that examines and updates the new and classic stories of Astoria. Blending an eclectic variety of literary genres, including memoir, history, essay, vignette, reportage, guide, criticism, satire, stream of consciousness, meditation, review, commentary, and polemic, A Nice Piece of Astoria tours you through Astoria's beer, bars, taverns, The Goonies, Lewis and Clark, sea lions, rain, salmon, coffee, Vikings, paperboys, professional wrestling, strippers, the Column, the Clatsop County Fair, the Columbia River, gentrification, hipsters, parks, The Ship Report, and his first year in town. Tim Sproul's Newported, a Poetic Field Guide to the Pacific Coast (Nestucca Spit Press) goes where most poetry fears to go — the heart of the real characters, dark bars, and magically dangerous beaches of the Pacific Coast. While firmly rooted in the Oregon Coast, the poems get at formative things, the most universal of our concerns, those people and places from our past and in the moment of right now, that shape us into who we are constantly becoming, for better or worse. Love and Sproul will be joined at the event by author (Lean on Pete) and musician Willy Vlautin.
01.15: Matt Love
2014-12-18 20:04:24| Powells Books Events Calendar
On August 21, 1993, Matt Love and his friend became the chief suspects in the biggest jewelry theft in Portland history. No one was ever arrested in the case, the jewelry never recovered. The statute of limitations on the crime, grand larceny, has finally expired. At long last, Love is free to confess what really happened. His confession is called Rose City Heist: A True Crime Portland Tale of Sex, Gravy, Jewelry and Almost Rock and Roll (Nestucca Spit Press). And it's all true, meaning creative nonfiction. Rose City Heist unfolds in the languid era when Portland wasn't a coffee or dog or bike or quirky indie rock city. It was a cheap, gray town with nothing to do, where you never waited in line for anything, especially not to eat breakfast. No one ever talked about beer in public, but you could smell and hear it being produced at the Weinhard's downtown brewery. Mayors exposed themselves to art, not to the world via their cell phones. There were no sideburns or kickball leagues. Martinis were martinis. Donuts were donuts. The sole food cart served only one item — corndogs — and the server was 70 years old.
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11.01: Matt Love
2013-10-16 22:36:08| Powells Books Events Calendar
Matt Love's Of Walking in Rain (Nestucca Spit Press) blends an eclectic variety of literary genres — including memoir, essay, vignette, diary, reportage, satire, oral history, weather report, discography, liner notes, polemic, and confession — in reflecting upon our state's most famous cultural asset.
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