SF, Ep. 66

April 5, 2018 — Literary Death Match went back-to-back — two shows in two nights — and the second, at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, was excellence abound, as Sara Faith Alterman took down Matthew Siegel in a down-to-the-wire battle of Arithme-Lit to win Alterman the LDM SF, Ep. 66 crown, and literary immortality to go with it. 

Here's the full lineup:

JUDGES:
Literary Merit: Rachel Levin, SF restaurant critic for Eater and a freelancer journalist who has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Outside, and elsewhere. Her first book is out this month: LOOK BIG: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds
Performance: Natasha Muse, comedian and regular at SF Punchline and Cobb’s Comedy Club, she was named a SF Weekly “Comedian to Watch” (2014) and an “Artist to Watch” (2016)
Intangibles: Irene Tu, comedian, actor, and writer; named one of the “Bay Area’s 11 Best Stand Up Comedians” by the SFist and one of 20 “Women to Watch” by KQED in 2017

READERS:
Round 1:

* Sara Faith Alterman, writer, editor, Mortified producer and author of the forthcoming The Beginner's Guide to Sex and Death
* Katie M. Flynn,  2018 SF Writers’ Grotto fellow, Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction winner and fiction editor at Split Lip Magazine

Round 2:
* Kim Addonizio, award-winning author of 13 books, a NEA and Guggenheim fellow, winner of two Pushcart Prizes, and a National Book Award Finalist for her collection Tell Me
* Matthew Siegel, author of the poetry collection, Blood Work, and winner of the Felix Pollax Prize in Poetry from University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga.

Where:  The CJM, 736 Mission St, SF (map)
When: 6:30pm sharp (until 8pm); Doors at 6pm
Cost: $10 for members; $15 for everyone else