Austin, Ep. 1

October 31, 2009—by Tyler Stoddard Smith—The Texas Book Festival was a veritable feast of literary delights, none more savory than the “boot-up-your-ass” brawl during the Lone Star State’s first Literary Death Match in Austin. Festivalgoers may have been a bit bemused at learning the forum for the LDM was not a bar called "The Sanctuary" (as I first thought) but in fact an actual sanctuary housed in the First United Methodist Church. However, the proceedings were as bare-knuckled and bawdy as they come, House o’ the Lord be damned.

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LA, Ep. 1

The pilot episode of Literary Death Match LA at Cinespace was a diverse showcase that finished with a Hollywood ending, as The Nervous Breakdown's Rich Ferguson out-dueled Hyperion's Joshua Lyon in a stellar gun-fueled match of "Adapted or Original?" Ferguson pulled off the win by a score of 11-9 to become Los Angeles' first Literary Death Match Champion.

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