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• AM New York, 2.17.2010
  "There are plenty of traditional readings going on around town every night, but this being New York City, there are those that take the concept a bit further."
• News and Observer, 9.13.09
  "It's either further evidence of the continued gathering of creativity in Raleigh's core, or else of its demise."
• LA Times, 8.11.09
  LA Times' Jacket Copy previews the Literary Death Match LA debut
• The Independent, 7.17.09
  "Marlowe aside, writers are probably the last people you'd expect to find in a bar brawl."
• 7x7 Magazine, 6.12.2009
  "It's time for another Literary Death Match that promises to be nothing less than brilliant. Boasting a brain-stilting lineup of award-winning judges and accomplished readers, you'll be hard-pressed to keep up with it all."
• Boston Globe, 5.13.2009
  Boston's Literary Death Match Debut
• Encore Magazine, 4.2009
  War of the Words
• San Francisco Chronicle, 10.1.07
  Todd Zuniga and Elizabeth Koch, editors of the literary journal Opium, wanted to add some sizzle to the local lit scene - a friskiness to foil the preciousness of literary readings.
• San Francisco Gate, 10.1.2007
  "Literary Death Match exudes attitude." -Edward Guthmann

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• The Inkwell, 3.10,10
  "I do hope the writers who perform are able to show that there’s more to the Savannah literary scene than Flannery O’Connor.”
• JetBlue San Francisco Blog, 3.1.10
  "Anyone who thinks old school bookstore readings could use a reboot should check out Literary Death Match."
• Charm City Current, 2.15.10
  "While amusing, her words reminded me poignantly of just how much of our day-to-day conversation is preoccupied with things, not ideas or feelings, and in the final analysis, just how meaningless things can be."
• Baltimore City Paper, 1.30.10
  “While the days of a Norman Mailer threatening to take this shit outside are, like the five-martini lunch and freelance writing budgets, no longer the norm, at least the Literary Death Match offers the spectacle of writers squaring off.”
• City Lit Project, 1.25.10
  “When a guy contacts you to ask if you want to represent at something called a Literary Death Match, it's hard to refuse.”
• The 7x7 Guide to the Best of Litquake 10.5.09
  "Still can't get enough Tamblyn? She'll also be judging the Literary Death Match, Opium magazine's long-running authorial face-off."
• New Raleigh, 9.11.09
  "Go to the Literary Death Match homepage and you’ll see five cities listed; San Fran, London, Paris, NYC and….Raleigh? Yup."
• Mat Briggs, 8.9.2009
  Seattle's Death Match Debut!
• Gaurdian Books Blog, 7.22.09
  Put boring literary evenings out of their misery – with a Death Match
• Londonist, 7.22.09
  Review: Literary Death Match at the Old Queen's Head
• Street Boners and TV Carnage, 6.27.2009
  "The winner of the Literary Death Match was Lisa Suckdog, hands down. She took something as esoteric as getting fired for discussing piss-drinking and turned it into an inspiring manifesto anyone can get excited about."
• Sextential Crisis, 6.11.2009
  When Writers Go Guerilla it’s a Literary Death Match
• Flavor Pill, 4.23.2009
  "Competitive-reading series Literary Death Match requires authors to step out from behind their writing desks and show some performance chops "
• Galleycat, 6.30.2008
  LDM in the Park
• Decider Chicago
  "Expect a raucous night; when the series debuted in San Francisco last year, a contestant reacted to criticism by making a judge wear his beer."
• Goodreads
  "Opium’s Literary Death Match is a competitive, humor-centric reading series that features four readers (who represent print and online literary concerns) in an edge-of-your-seat read-off, all critiqued by three all-star judges."
• KQED Arts, 5.11.2008
  "The editors of Opium Magazinecreated Literary Death Match as an antidote to the stultifying atmosphere that afflicts many literary readings." - Toby Warner
• Divine Caroline, 6.1.2008
  "The lit series everyone's talking about isn't afraid to make a scene."

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