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March 2, 2012 (at AWP)
Friday, January 6, 2012 at 8:00PM Click here to preorder discount tickets right away!
To celebrate our 200th episode at Buddy Guy's Legends, we're teaming with Versal and Painted Bride Quarterly for Literary Death Match: Journal Porn Edition at AWP, and we've assembled the most colossally-awarded lineup of literary superstars ever to participate in a LDM ever before. Other plans? Cancel them. This is going to be a sexy-literary-comedic night to remember!
Journal Porn? Yes! Jaw-droppingly beautiful lit mags are the night's heroes. Versal's "lit mags you'd sleep with" is back for its second year in a row, with each reader repping a different gorgeous piece of mag. Only the hottest will win!
The star-fueled reading lineup features the ever-wonderful Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (author of A Thousand Acres and Private Life), dazzling fictionist and PANK co-editor Roxane Gay (author of Ayiti), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and National Book Critics Circle finalist Major Jackson, and National Book Award winner Darin Strauss (author of Half a Life). Wow.
And the judging trio? Brace your brain. The night will boast the fabulous award-winning author Michael Martone (author of Four for a Quarter and Michael Martone), multi-award-winning poet Mark Doty (author of Fire to Fire, and the winner of these awards: National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards), and the hilarious performer, writer, Second City teacher Rachael Mason!
Hosted by LDM creator Todd Zuniga & Versal's EIC Megan M. Garr.
Produced by Kathleen Volk Miller & Marion Wrenn. Assistant producer Chris Nugent.
Where: Buddy Guy's Legends, 700 S Wabash Ave, Chicago (map)
When: Doors at 7, Show at 8:15 (sharp); afterdrinks after.
Cost: $6 preorder; $10 at the door.
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