LA, Ep. 50 (from Quarantine)

July 14, 2020 — In our first-ever all-digital event (click here to watch if you haven't seen it!), Literary Death Match teamed with the wondrous Hammer Museum for a magical Zoom-only event that saw Roxane Gay outduel Kimberly Jones in a baffling Cyrillic Off finale, winning Gay the LDM Quarantine, Ep. 1 crown, and literary immortality to go with it. 

Here's the event's full lineup: 

Judges:
Literary Merit: Jon Lovett, podcast host (Lovett or Leave It; Pod Save America); co-founder of Crooked Media and former Obama speechwriter

Performance: Gabby Sidibe, award-winning actor (Precious, Empire and American Horror Story), and author of This is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

Intangibles: Aparna Nancherla, stand-up comedian, writer and actor (Bojack Horseman; Space Force)

Readers: 
Round 1: 
* Kimberly Jones, NAACP Image Award nominated co-author of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
* Andre Perry, arts advocate and author of Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now

Round 2: 
* Roxane Gay, author of New York Times bestsellers Hunger, Bad Feminist, and Marvel's World of Wakanda
* Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good And Mad and All the Single Ladies 

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

Where: Hammer Museum (Virtual)
When: July 14