NW Author Series hosts Matt Love
Astoria author to speak at Cannon Beach Library Jan. 9
CANNON BEACH — Matt
Love will be the speaker at
the Cannon Beach Library’s
next Northwest Author Se-
ries event at 2 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 9. This event will be a
double-header; love will fo-
cus on his new book “A Nice
Piece of Astoria: A Narrative
Guide” as well as on his latest
book, a parody of a detective
novel, “The Great Birthright.”
Love moved to Astoria
in 2013 and his book about
the city is a work of creative
non-¿ction that examines and
updates the new and classic
stories about America’s oldest
city west of the Rockies. The
book blends an eclectic vari-
ety of literary genres, includ-
ing memoir, history, essay,
vignette, guide, criticism, sat-
ire, stream of consciousness,
meditation, review, commen-
tary and polemic.
In the book, Love tours
you through Astoria’s bars
and taverns, The Goonies,
Lewis and Clark, sea lions,
rain, salmon, coffee, Vi-
kings, the Astoria Column,
the Clatsop County Fair, the
Columbia River, “The Ship
Report,” his ¿rst year in town
and much more. The book in-
cludes a preface by Meriweth-
er Lewis. This narrative guide
has all the wit, humor, insight,
rain worship and beach adora-
tion that one expects from this
writer.
In his newest book, “The
Great Birthright,” Love par-
odies the detective novel,
working the premise that a
slick and tanned L.A. devel-
oper colludes with U.S. Su-
preme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia to have Oregon’s fa-
mous 1967 Beach Bill de-
clared unconstitutional. The
book has been described as
“one man’s vision, indeed a
manifesto about how, when
and why Matt plans to cele-
brate the 50th anniversary of
the Beach Bill come July 7th,
2017.” Love himself says,
“:hen someone ¿nishes this
novel, I hope the reader is
ART CARDS,
ARTISAN CRAFTS,
GALLERY &
WORKING STUDIO
ready to go to war to protect
our beaches.”
Love grew up in Ore-
gon City, attended Portland
Sate University and earned
his masters in teaching at
Lewis and Clark College.
He has taught in six Oregon
schools, at a high school in
Istanbul, Turkey, at PSU,
has coordinated the Lincoln
County District Ocean Edu-
cation Initiative, and served
10 years as caretaker of the
Nestucca Bay National Wild-
life Refuge. After 18 years of
living on the coast, he moved
to Astoria, where in addi-
tion to writing and running
the Nestucca Spit Press, he
teaches locally and freelanc-
es for various media. The au-
thor/editor of 14 books about
Oregon, Love received the
prestigious Oregon Literary
Arts’ Stewart H. Holbrook
Photo by Erick Bengel
Matt Love will speak at the next Northwest
Author Series Jan. 9.
Legacy Award for his contri-
bution to Oregon history and
literature.
The January talk at the
Cannon Beach Library is free
and the public is welcomed.
The library is located at 131
N. Hemlock St.
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