January 13, 2012
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To celebrate LDM HQ’s return to the West Coast, LDM creator Todd Zuniga has assembled an all-star cast of lit- and witerati for a spectacular Elbo Room-based night of whimsy, braininess, confusion, antics, exaltation, and other words that give a sense of celebratory fantasticness.
The wild night features a brilliant trio of judges that includes SF comedic mastermind W. Kamau Bell (check out his comedy album Face Full of Flour), Pop Up Magazine producer and New Yorker contributor Douglas McGray, and a third to be announced in no time!
They’ll pass judgment on a foursome like none other, including Litquake founder Jane Ganahl (author of Naked on the Page), writer/activist/showman Chicken John Rinaldi, short fictionist (and LDM SF’s own) Alia Volz, and Jack Wakes Upauthor Seth Harwood.
Hosted by LDM creator Todd Zuniga.
Where: Elbo Room, 647 Valencia Street, SF (map)
When: Doors at 6:30, Show at 7:15 (sharp); afterdrinks after.
Cost: $7 preorder; $10 at the door.
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October 13, 2011 (Litquake)
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At the rocking height of SF’s Litquake festival, Literary Death Match invites you to a mind-blowing, earth-shaking, thesaurus-confounding battle of literary genius.
We’re proud to feature three luminous judges at this special event: bestselling crime novelist, Laurie R. King (winner of Edgar, Wolfe, Casey, McCavity and LAMBDA awards); host of Snap Judgment, NPR’s hit storytelling show, Glynn Washington; and Emmy Award nominee and co-producer of HBO’s Six Feet Under, Jill Solloway!
Four relentless geniuses from three continents jump into the ring. Representing Ireland, novelist (The Tenderloin) and TV director (Your Bad Self), John Butler! Author of the story collections Hard to Say, PANK, and Cut through the Bone, Ethel Rohan! Community hero and musical agitator, Myron Michael! And representing Kenya, winner of the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing, and author of the 2011 release One Day I Will Write About This Place, Binyavanga Wainaina!
Get down after the show, as funk-master DJ Toph One spins us dizzy!
Hosted by LDM creator Todd Zuniga & LDM SF Executive Producer Alia Volz.
Where: Beatbox, 314 11th St., San Francisco (map)
When: Doors at 7, Show at 8:15 (sharp); afterdrinks after.
Cost: $10 advance, $15 at the door.
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
6:00 PM
It’s the most exciting thing to ever cost absolutely nothing! BAN6 presents Literary Death Match!
Sponsored by ModCloth and The Written Wardrobe, this thrilling FREE event takes place at beautiful Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
In a never-before-attempted feat of flexibility, four authors will read original work written especially for LDM, and inspired by paintings in YBCA’s BAN6 Visual Art Exhibition. Artists from the exhibition will judge.
Featuring slam superstar Chinaka Hodge (For Girls With Hips); the man who copyrighted his own mind, Jonathon Keats (The Book of the Unknown); the captivating Caitlin Myer (Founder of Portuguese Artists Colony), and cutting edge fictionista Susan Steinberg (Hydroplane)!
Three artists call the game: the mind-bending Chris Sollars (Director, 667Shotwell), lauded multimedia genius Tony Labat, and performance artiste extraordinaire Mica Sigourney (a.k.a VivvyAnne ForeverMORE)!
Hosted by Bucky Sinister and Alia Volz.
Where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF
When: 6:00PM-8:00PM
Cost: FREE!
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San Francisco
June 10, 2011
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Splash into the puppy dog days of SF summer with our June Swoon Special! Four sizzling scribes will make you scream for ice cream and margaritas. Featuring fabulous essayist/heartbreaker Tana Wojczuk (Tin House Magazine, The Believer); King of the Small Press, His Highness Paul Corman-Roberts (editor Full of Crow quarterly); saucy modern mama Lisa Catherine Harper (A Double Life, Discovering Motherhood – winner of the River Teeth 2010 Lit. Nonfiction Prize); and bright light Belo Cipriani (Blind: A Memoir)!
Three sunkissed superstars preside: CEO of Redroom.com, Ivory Madison (Huntress: Year One), veteran funnyman Michael Meehan, and the next best thing to coffee, Renee Richardson (KFOG Morning Show)!
Join hosts Alia Volz and Howard Johnson Jr. for an unforgettable night the sun, as four authors fight to survive a battle of words, wit and punctuation. Ink will be spilt!
Cost: $7 adv. ($15 w/ tee shirt!)/ $10 door.
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San Francisco
April 8, 2011
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Join hosts Alia Volz and funnyman Will Franken at this gloves-off, glasses-on literary duel!
Birds may chirp and raindrops may plink, but the battle for literary supremacy rages on! Our trigger-happy word-warriors are 2010 National Book Award finalist Monica Youn (Ignatz), lauded poet Dean Rader (Works & Days), San Francisco daughter Kim Wong Keltner (The Dim Sum of All Things), and incredibly strange cult novelist Kris Saknussemm (Zanesville)!
Three seasoned veterans preside: iconic poetess Kim Addonizio (Tell Me), SF music denizen Anthony Bedard (Hank IV), and the only saint to ever run for office in San Francisco, Glendon Hyde a.k.a. Sister Anna Conda!
Four authors fight a brutal battle of wit, words, and punctuation. Ink will be spilt!
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February 11, 2011
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Have you missed us, San Francisco?
We vanquished 2010 with a bang and a splat! The new Literary Death Match now rises from the ashes. And we’re feeling fine.
Join us as we charge into the fray with a quiver of lethally funny surprises–beginning with special guest co-host Will Franken!
Set to do intellectual battle are luscious locker room deviant Monica Nolan (Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher), award-winning poet Geoff Bouvier (Living Room), John Scott (http://straightmalefriend.blogspot.com/), and national best-seller Jennifer Solow (The Booster and The Aristobrats).
Three canny experts preside: former SF Chronicle book editor and new editor of ZYZZYVA, Oscar Villalon; novelist April Sinclair (Coffee Will Make You Black); and author, musician and HarperOne exec, Sam Barry (How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons).
Four writers fight to survive a brutal smack down of words, punctuation, and ideas. Ink will run red!
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December 10, 2010
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Set to do battle are the “verbal Genghis Kahn” of spoken word, Jamie DeWolf (founder of Tourettes Without Regrets), fiction tigress Sarah Fran Wisby, blood-soaked bards Steven Gray and Guinevere Q, and supernatural fright novelist Richard Kadrey… (Sandman Slim, Accelerate).
Three masters of mayhem will decide their fate: legendary founder of Last Gasp Books and Comix, Ron Turner; editor of Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues, Loren Rhoads; and San Francisco punk rock overlord, Blag Dahlia of The Dwarves!
Purveyors of gore fight to survive a brutal smack down of words, punctuation, and yuletide bloodletting.
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Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm (sharp)
Cost: $7 pre-order*; $10 at the door; $7 with a valid student ID. This event is free for Literary Death Match subscribers.
Hosted by M.G. Martin and Alia Volz.
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San Francisco
November 12, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 5:12PMDahlink, you look younger every month. After an unforgettable national celebration of LDM’s 100th ever episode, we’re traveling back to the future for Episode 35. Doesn’t make sense to you? That’s ok! We don’t get it either! But the show will be fabulous.
Dig this: Ep. 35 will be judged by the voice of KQED’s Forum Michael Krasny (Spiritual Envy), inventor/radio personality DJ Dennis “The Menace” Scheyer, and fresh off the boat from LDM London, Nicki Le Masurier.
Set to do battle are the new dark prince of West African mystery Kwei Quartey (Wife Of The Gods), slam poetry bard Sam Sax, historical fiction maven Thaisa Frank (Heidegger’s Glasses), and SF’s noir hotshot Craig Clevenger (The Contortionist’s Handbook).
Hosted by M.G. Martin and Alia Volz.
Where: Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St.
When: Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm (sharp)
Cost: $7 pre-order*; $10 at the door; $7 with a valid student ID. This event is free for Literary Death Match subscribers.
