Austin, Ep. 14

October 26, 2019 — For our annual Austin drop-in to the Texas Book Festival, Literary Death Match headed to Cheer Up Charlies for a wild night of wordsmithing that saw Angie Cruz outduel Kristen Arnett in a down-to-the-wire battle of LDM Cabinet of Non-Wonders, winning Cruz the LDM Austin, Ep. 14 crown and literary immortality to go with it.

Here's the full lineup from the night-of: 

Judges: 

Literary Merit: Mary Norris, author of Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen and former New Yorker copy editor

Performanced: Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, a 2018 Lambda Literary finalist

Intangibles: Dalia Azim, manager of special projects at the Blanton Museum of Art and winner of Glimmer Train‘s Short Story Award for New Writers

Super-Intangibles: Tochi Onyebuchi, author of War Girls, Beasts Made of Night and its sequel Crown of Thunder

Readers: 
Round 1: 
* Ryan Chapman, author of the debut novel Riots I Have Known and Conversation Sparks
* Kristen Arnett, award-winning author of New York Times best-seller Mostly Dead Things and Felt in the Jaw 

Round 2: 
* Angie Cruz, author of the novels Dominicana and Let It Rain Coffee and editor of Aster(ix)
* Chaitali Sen, author of The Pathless Sky

Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga (author of Collision Theory).  

Where: Cheer Up Charlies, 900 Red River St, Austin (map)

When: 7pm sharp, until 810pm (Doors at 630pm)
Cost: Free!