Austin, Ep. 15 (from Quarantine)

November 7, 2020 — In our second all-digital event, Literary Death Match teamed with the extraordinary Texas Book Festival for a brilliant watch-at-home show that saw Don Tate outduel Juli Delgado Lopera in a math-meets-books Arithme-Lit finale, winning Tate the LDM Quarantine, Ep. 2 crown, and literary immortality to go with it. 

Here's who was part of it: 

Judges:
Literary Merit: Richard Z. Santos, author of Trust Me and board member of the National Book Critics Circle

Performance: Lise Ragbir, writer, curator, and the Director of the Art Galleries at Black Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

Intangibles: Isabel Quintero, author of My Papi Has a Motorcycle, winner of the 2015 William C. Morris Award & the Tomas Rivera Award

Readers: 
Round 1: 
* Deesha Philyaw, author of the 2020 National Book Award finalist The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (from West Virginia University Press)
* Juli Delgado Lopera, historian, storyteller and award-winning Colombian author of Fiebre Tropical

Round 2: 
* Charlie Clark, 2019 NEA fellow in poetry and author of The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin
* Don Tate, two-time Ezra Jack Keats Book award-winning author and illustrator of William Still and His Freedom Stories

Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga (author of Collision Theory).  

Thank you to partners Desert Door Sotol and Rambler Sparkling Water, supporting community through storytelling!