Join the Seaside Public Library Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. as the Friends of the Seaside Library host local author, publisher, and raconteur, Matt Love, speaking about his latest book, “A Nice Piece of Astoria: A Narrative Guide.” The event will take place in the Community Room and there will be book sales and signings.

“A Nice Piece of Astoria” is a work of creative nonfiction that examines and updates the new and classic stories of Astoria. Love tours you through Astoria’s beer, bars, taverns, the Goonies, Lewis and Clark, sea lions, rain, salmon, coffee, Vikings, paperboys, professional wrestling, the column, the Clatsop County Fair, the Columbia River, gentrification, hipsters, parks, and his first year in town. The book includes a preface by Meriwether Lewis.

Matt Love grew up in Oregon City and is a lifelong educator and publisher of Nestucca Spit Press. He’s the author/editor of 14 books about Oregon, including “A Nice Piece of Astoria” and Newport Trilogies. In 2009, Love won the Oregon Literary Art’s Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for his contributions to Oregon history and literature.

The Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broadway. For more information call 503-738-6742 or visit www.seasidelibrary.org and www.facebook.com/seasidepubliclibrary.