Journalhttp://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/en-US2012-02-10T15:39:14ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)LA, Ep. 5http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/la-ep-5.htmlLiterary Death Match2012-01-27T02:53:00ZBen Loory Busby's East Chris Regan Edan Lepucki LA Matthew Specktor Megan Amram Melinda Hill Natashia Deón Nathasha Leggero The Los Angeles Review of Books Todd ZunigaBusby's East, followed by a nonstop series of hilarity, tenderness, fabulism, wordplay and beyond, which finished with Matthew Specktor nipping Ben Loory in a literary spelling bee by a razor-close margin, nailing "Ondaatje" to give him a 17-16 lead, and the LDM LA, Ep. 5 crown. ]]>SF, Ep. 42http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/sf-ep-42.htmlLiterary Death Match2012-01-13T18:28:00ZAlia Volz Chicken John DOUGLAS Mcgray Elbo Room Jane Ganahl Michelle Richmond San Francisco Seth Harwood Todd Zuniga W. Kamau BellElbo Room saw Alia Volz  topple Seth Harwood at Literary Author Jumble by a hugely narrow margin of 51.8 seconds. ]]>LDM 2011: Year in Reviewhttp://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/ldm-2011-year-in-review.htmlLiterary Death Match2011-12-25T06:26:00ZAdam Mansbach Chuck Palahniuk David Whitehouse Edo Salon Jeff Martin Lisa Loeb Los Angeles Martha Hall Foose Peter Balistrieri Suzanne Azzopardi Todd Zuniga TulsaA Portland-based journalist asked me to tell her about my experience watching Literary Death Match grow after going from four events in one city (NYC) in 2006, to 68 events over 31 cities in 2011. Here was my answer (that went unpublished — she just used a tiny quote from another question): 

"As far as I can tell, the stages of creation go something like this: 

]]>London, Ep. 21http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/london-ep-21.htmlEd Mottram2011-12-07T12:41:00ZAmnesty International Corbet Place Ed Hogan Hephzibah Anderson Iain Lee Kat Brown Kate Monro London Mighty Boosh Paul Sinha Rich Fulcher Suzanne Azzopardi Todd ZunigaKat Brown defeated Ed Hogan in a tense, sudden-death Bauble-Off! that lasted a nail-gnawing four rounds before Brown triumphed over her adversary to claim the Death Match crown.]]>Amsterdam, Ep. 2http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/amsterdam-ep-2.htmlLiterary Death Match2011-12-01T17:21:00ZAmsterdam Anna Arov Jane Lewty Matthijs Ponte Megan M. Garr Mina Witteman Najiba Abdellaoui Philibert Schogt Prue Duggan Rob AndristPlourde SMART Project Space Todd ZunigaSMART Project Space it was a brilliantly cozy, Versal-presented evening, as gobs of onlookiers witnessed Jane Lewty snare victory from the jaws of victory, out-spelling her formidable counterpart Anna Arov in a Literary Spelling Bee finale that saw Lewty win by a closer-than-it-appears 17-8 margin that won her the Literary Death Match crown. ]]>Miami, Ep. 3 (Miami Book Fair)http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/miami-ep-3-miami-book-fair.htmlLiterary Death Match2011-11-18T05:50:28ZBardot Chuck Palahniuk Dean Haspiel Jeff Newelt Jennifer Hayden Justin Torres Mat Johnson Miami Miami Book Fair Sandra Beasley T.M. Shine Todd ZunigaMiami Book Fair no less — couldn't have been grander, with a down-to-the-wire finale that saw comics mastermind Jennifer Hayden outduel Mat Johnson by a single point in a literary spell-off that won Hayden the Literary Death Match Miami crown. ]]>Boston, Ep. 6http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/boston-ep-6.htmlLiterary Death Match2011-11-17T21:10:00ZBilly Giraldi Boston Club Oberon Courtney Maum Cynthia von Buhler Kirsten Sims Liz Prince Matthew Salesses Ron Currie Jr. Sarah Braunstein Todd ZunigaOBERON, as the knock-down, drag-out finale saw Courtney Maum outduel co-finalist William Giraldi by a final score of 17-10, in an audience-wowing literary spelling bee that won Maum the Literary Death Match crown. ]]>Kansas City, Ep. 2http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/kansas-city-ep-2.htmlLiterary Death Match2011-11-16T09:12:08ZAnnie Fischer Brandon Tietz Brian Shawver Danny Volin Hadara Ben-Nadav Jason F. Harper Kansas City Liz Tascio Matthew Eck The Brick Todd ZunigaThe Brick witnessed a literary spelling bee finish between co-finalists Matthew Eck and Sarah Smarsh that ended with a closer-than-it-appears score of 13-1, winning Eck the LDM crown. ]]>Tulsa, Ep. 1http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/tulsa-ep-1.htmlLiterary Death Match2011-11-15T05:30:00ZBooksmart Tulsa Cary Aspinwall Congregation B'Nai Emunah Jeff Martin Jennie Lloyd Mark Brown Miroslav Penkov Sloan Davis Todd Zuniga TulsaCary Aspinwall fall to Team Sloan Davis in a remarkably close, and brilliantly contested finish at Congregation B'Nai Emunah Synagogue that won Davis Tulsa's first ever LDM crown. And all of it thanks to Booksmart Tulsa.]]>Orlando, Ep. 2http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/orlando-ep-2.htmlLiterary Death Match2011-11-13T14:48:00ZAdonal Foyle Brook Pifer Burrow Press J. Bradley J. Christopher Siliva Kat Dixon Mad Cow Theatre Orlando PANK Magazine Rachel Leona Kapitan Tod Caviness Todd ZunigaMad Cow Theatre, the giddy crowd witnessed Team Tod Caviness outduel Team Rachel Leona Kapitan by a score of 8-3 in an epically long Cyrillic-Off! that won Caviness the second-ever LDM Orlando crown, presented by Burrow Press. ]]>