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Smashing!

THE DUCK & HERRING CO. PROUDLY PRESENTS:

A HOT SUMMER LITERARY CAR SMASHING

At Eyedrum, in the parking lot.

To celebrate the release of its gorgeous and blue Pocket Field Guide for Warm Weather 2008, and to get out some summer-heat aggression, the editors at The Duck & Herring Co, in partnership with Eyedrum, are throwing a car smashing. What is a car smashing, you ask? You know: one of those carnival-like attractions where you pay a tiny bit of money for the right to smash a car with a sledgehammer. This is the perfect (and perfectly legal) way to let out hot and sweaty anger over: 1) the person who recently dumped you, 2) the dump-truck driver that cut you off in traffic, 3) your boss’s stupid haircut …. and many, many other scenarios, real or imagined.

So come on out, BYOB (bring your own bat, though we will have a sledgehammer on hand), and start smashing! Also, there might be a reading from our Pocket Field Guide, there might be a music sing-along, and you might want to purchase a Pocket Field Guide when it’s all said and done.

WHERE: Eyedrum parking lot, 290 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. S, Atlanta
WHEN: August 1, 2008, 7 p.m.
HOW MUCH: $1 for 5 swings of the sledgehammer; $5 for two minutes of sledgehammer swinging

Note: Participants will be required to sign a waiver indicating they are taking part in the car smashing at their own risk.

Cold Weather Radio Hour

The Duck & Herring Co. Cold Weather Radio Hour
January 25, 2008, 8p
Agnes Scott College, Alston Campus Center, Fireside Lounge

MUSIC - READINGS - RADIO SKITS - PRIZES - HOT CHOCOLATE

The Duck & Herring Co., the literary entity responsible for the Writers Conference at the Decatur Book Festival, has recently published its Cold Weather Pocket Field Guide for Winter 2007-2008.

For this reason, and many others (some related, sadly, to “crass commercialism” and “self-esteem”), the editors - Jamie Allen, Tom Bell and Terra Elan McVoy - are holding a Radio Hour at Agnes Scott, which will be fun. You should come!

There will be singing, laughs, readings, phone calls. And it will be podcasted on the World Wide Web. Also, a special kind of hot chocolate will be served.

FREE.

www.duckandherring.com

Cold Weather Pocket Field Guide for 2007-2008

What do you get when you collect writing from a Minnesota mother and wife, a professor of law at Boston University, a German-born scientist, a former resident of the Soviet Union, a former Peace Corps volunteer, an MFA student at NYU, a contributing writer to The Morning News, among others, and you add some stuff to it?

Well, in this case you get The Duck & Herring Co.’s Cold Weather Pocket Field Guide for 2007-2008.

In this issue:

- Fiction from Mark Maynard, Kellie Isbell, Jay Wexler, Natasha Grinberg, Kim Teeple, Benjamin Black and Weston Cutter

- Odd little things from Joachim Frank and Jess Miller

- Advice on dressing in layers, avoiding frostbite, running in sub-zero temperatures, and something you can do with a pinecone

- Recipes for Butternut Squash Lasagna and Big Jim’s Oyster Stew

- At least one embarrassing (yet anonymous) admission by one of our editors

- Plus, our patented seasonal to-do list

The color of this PFG cover is gray, like frosty winter on your window pane, with the dark green print of pines showing through.

$8.99 (not including shipping)

Buy it today.

... great fiction, amazing true tales, delicious recipes,

seasonal must-dos, and more ...