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Entries in Stephen Elliott (4)

Saturday
Nov182017

Miami, Ep. 9

November 18, 2017 — For our final Literary Death Match of 2017, we returned to the Miami Book Fair for an Author Party extravaganza at The Standard Hotel on Miami Beach which saw Chen Chen outduel T'ai Freedom Ford in a down-to-the-wire Literary Visual Riddles finale to win Chen the LDM Miami, Ep. 9 crown, and literary immortality to go with it.

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Thursday
Jun172010

NYC, Ep. 27

June 17, 2010 — Brilliance reigned supreme at New York City's 27th-ever Literary Death Match, as four heavyweights slugged it out at Bowery Poetry Club, with The Rumpus founding editor Stephen Elliott out Card Shark'd co-finalist Rakesh Satyal by a final score of 2-1, avenging his LDM first-round knockout 90 episodes ago in San Francisco, and claiming the LDM crown. 

 

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Saturday
May102008

SF, Ep. 9

In the most ambitious Literary Death Match ever--an “All-Star” event featuring past SF winners, judges and hosts--Andrew Lam (the winner of SF’s Episode 7), trumped all with his blindly skilled placement of Leatherface’s body (yes, the chainsaw murderer in cardboard cut-out form) onto the oversized, two-dimensional heads of great literary figures/past LDM champs: Daniel Handler, Bucky Sinister and Rupert Estanislao. The feat was witnessed by 190 laughing fans at the Rickshaw Stop, who cheered wildly (and confusingly) at the finale.

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Tuesday
Jul172007

SF, Ep. 1

Opium’s Literary Death Match kicked off in San Francisco at Harlot with a huge bang, as Sam Hurwitt (Kitchen Sink) wowed the world--or at least the 160 onlookers--by toppling Canteen’s Joyce Maynard in a breathtaking game of Stab a Hole in Nebraska. Joyce’s joust sunk well south of the target, while Hurwitt stabbed a hole into Shenendoah, Iowa, just miles clear of the Nebraska state line.

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