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Entries in Ann Heatherington (9)

Thursday
Jun022011

Baltimore, Ep. 3

June 2, 2011 — In the Literary Death Match's historic 150th episode, Davida Gypsy Breier and her teammate out-charaded co-finalist war-zone hopping author Dan Fesperman and teammate/daughter "Emma" by a 5-3 count, winning Breier the Literary Death Match crown! 

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Thursday
May262011

Philadelphia, Ep. 1

May 26, 2011 — In the rowdiest debut Literary Death Match has ever seen, Philadelphia's monster lineup (presented by Painted Bride Quarterly) brought down the house again and again, with the night ending after Team Leonard Gontarek outdueled Team Angel Hogan in a wild and baffling game of Literary Charades, winning Gontarek the LDM crown by a oh-so-close! 3-2 score. 

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Wednesday
Mar162011

Shanghai, Ep. 1

March 18, 2011 — Glamour Bar at M on the Bund set a gorgeous stage for Literary Death Match's Shanghai debut, hosted by LDM's Ann Heatherington and presented by Shanghai International Literary Festival. And in the end it was SJ Rozan who outdueled Jenn Chan Lyman in a crazy-close game of Poet v. Madman.

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Thursday
Dec162010

NYC, Ep. 34

December 16, 2010 — On a holly, jolly, cut throat night of poetic gift-giving at the Bowery Poetry Club, Literary Death Match’s final event of the year ended with “Team Hanukkah” (featuring Clay McCleod Chapman) outdid “Team Christmas” (headed by Elissa Bassist) in a vicious battle of "Mad Lib Christmas Caroling" that led to the crowning of Chapman as LDM champion.

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Thursday
Oct212010

LDM100: NYC

October 21, 2010 — On a historic night for Literary Death Match — and a historic evening from wire to wire — the LDM100: NYC celebration concluded in a knock-down drag-out Literary Name That Tune that ended with Team Rick Moody out-guessing Team Amanda Filipacchi by a narrow 7-5 score to claim the LDM crown.

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Tuesday
Oct052010

NYC (Comic Con), Ep. 31

October 8, 2010 — Technicolor hijinks outshined some technical hiccups when masterpiece mash-ups collided with subversive cartoons at LDM NY Comic Con. Escalating to a feverish finale where comics heavweights R. Sikoryak and Michael Kupperman battled in a bout of Name That Superhero Jeopardy! that saw Sikoryak win by a closer-than-it-seemed 7-0 victory to claim LDM victory!

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Thursday
Sep162010

NYC, Ep. 30

September 16, 2010 — Fantastical thunderstorms couldn't keep die-hard fans and intrigued newcomers from LDM NYC Ep. 30 to watch four writers brandish their literary battleaxes. NYC Exec Producer Ann Heatherington and co-host, LDM London Producer Nicki LaMasurier (who came ready to fight dressed in a British flag) outlined the rules, and introduced the judges: in-pat/ex-pat critic Liesl Schillinger took on Literary Merit, and Moth Star Jim O’Grady, Performance. Emmy-award winner Cory Cavin, the self-appointed ‘Stupidest Man in the Room,’ would judge Intangibles.  

 

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Saturday
Aug142010

Edinburgh, Ep. 1

August 10, 2010 — Deep in the recesses of a brilliant dungeon (a.k.a. The Banshee Labyrinth), the Literary Death Match's Edinburgh debut — teamed with Utter! at the Free Fringe — was pitch- and picture-perfect, with Scotland's homegrown Jenny Lindsay narrowly winning over Molly Naylor (Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You) in a breakneck game of Pass-the-Haggis to take the LDM crown. 

 

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Thursday
Jul152010

NYC, Ep. 28

July 15, 2010 — Literary Death Match went all poetical for the event's 28th-ever NYC-based episode, that saw a breakneck game of Shove the Balloon through the Hoola Hoop won by Jon Sands over C.S. Carrier by a 4-1 margin. 

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