Thursday
18Mar2010

March 18, 2010

DateThursday, March 18, 2010 at 8:13PM

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The Literary Death Match is back in NYC for another knockdown, dragout literary non-snore-athon that will feature a wonderful cast of judges, including Soft Skull editor Denise Oswald, comedian Eddie Sarfaty and Piper Weiss of My Mom the Style Icon. 

They'll take turns judging an excellent foursome of fierce pen-and-ink combatants, including Tin House co-founder and author of Use Me, Elissa Schappell, H.O.W. Journal's Alexios Moore, hilarity genius Jason Roeder (author of Oh, The Humanity!) and Union Station's Syreeta McFadden. 

Hosted by Opium's Todd Zuniga & Bernie Kravitz.

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Friday
12Mar2010

SF, Ep. 27

DateFriday, March 12, 2010 at 7:07PM

March 12, 2010 — Raucous readings. Hilarious tales of personal highs and lows. An Elbo Room so packed it should have to change its name. But in the end, the never-less-than-sidesplittingly-funny Ali Liebegott (The IHOP Papers) reigned victorious, and deservedly so, after first-round winner Tania Katan (My One Night Stand With Cancer) narrowly lost The Shortest Spelling Bee in Modern History finale. 

To kick off the evening, Katan stared down Chris Colin and won the coin flip, the coin being host Elissa Bassist's constant companion: Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Katan impressed the crowd with the tale of a lesbian couple applying to work as period characters in a Mormon version of Colonial Willamsburg. They would wear bonnets and churn prairie

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Thursday
28Jan2010

March 26, 2010

DateThursday, January 28, 2010 at 12:35PM

The Literary Death Match is thrilled to team up with the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival for a star-studded night of literary brilliance, and judging tomfoolery, featuring prolific cookbook author Kit Wohl and actor/writer Jeremy Lawrence (as Tennessee Williams) in the judges chairs, and a cast of four fantastic scribes, including Arthur Phillips (a five-time Jeopardy! champion and author of Prague), Amanda Boyden (trapeze artist and author of Pretty Little Dirty), Chuck Perkins (poet and the Voice of the Big Easy) and Michael Patrick Welch (journalist and author of Commonplace). 

Hosted by Opium's Todd Zuniga.

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Saturday
02Jan2010

April 6, 2010

DateSaturday, January 2, 2010 at 1:57PM

If there’s one thing the Literary Death Match loves more than an all-out brawl under the guise of literature, it’s twins…and cities. That’s why we’re proud to be putting together the first ever Twin Cities Literary Death Match, featuring such outstanding judges as renowned quizmaster Rob Callahan, and awesomeness instructor Dennis Cass (author of My New Look).

They’ll be judging a group of four dynamite writers, including 2-time Opium Magazine contest winner John Jodzio (author of If You Lived Here You'd Already Be Home), poet Darci Schummer, and Brian Beatty (as seen on McSweeney’s).

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Saturday
19Dec2009

LDM 2010

DateSaturday, December 19, 2009 at 6:48PM

April: 
1st: Chicago (The Hideout)
3rd: Iowa City (TBD)
8th: Denver (Jonesy's Bar)
9th: San Francisco (Elbo Room)
13th: San Diego (The Loft at UCSD)
14th: LA (The Mountain Bar)
14th: New York City (Bowery Poetry Club)
22nd: Austin (TBD) 
27th: Chicago (TBD)

May:
1st: Dublin (The Sugar Club)

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Tuesday
29Sep2009

LDM Next

DateTuesday, September 29, 2009 at 7:00AM
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