Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 10:27AM In our return to Oakland, Literary Death Match teamed with the masterminds at ALTA (The American Literary Translators Association) for an all-out night of brilliant lit that and comedy that finished with Edward Gauvin toppling Katherine Silver in a down-to-the-wire game of Literary Spelling Bee III, winning Gauvin the LDM Oakland, Ep. 2 and literary immortality to go with it.
Friday, August 14, 2009 at 9:30PM The Battle of the Independent Bookstores was, indeed, a battle for the ages. Episode 20 kicked off with two handsome readers: Jade Brooks (City Lights), who “out-booted” co-host Alana Conner with a pair of mighty tough hiking boots and Derek Powazek (The Booksmith). Powazek took the stage first and left the audience somewhere between laughter and tears with a tale of a sexy tour guide in the Warsaw Ghetto. Brooks was equally dazzling with prose poetry that Performance Judge Andrew Lam likened to a beautiful painting. A tough call but beautiful Literary Merit Judge Beth Spotswood announced that Derek would advance to second round.
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 3:38PM In the most ambitious Literary Death Match ever--an “All-Star” event featuring past SF winners, judges and hosts--Andrew Lam (the winner of SF’s Episode 7), trumped all with his blindly skilled placement of Leatherface’s body (yes, the chainsaw murderer in cardboard cut-out form) onto the oversized, two-dimensional heads of great literary figures/past LDM champs: Daniel Handler, Bucky Sinister and Rupert Estanislao. The feat was witnessed by 190 laughing fans at the Rickshaw Stop, who cheered wildly (and confusingly) at the finale.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 3:42PM
The Literary Death Match’s 7th Episode at San Francisco’s Rickshaw Stop was thrilling and memorable, bringing together--for the first-time ever--local publishing houses MacAdam/Cage, Soft Skull Press, Manic D Press, and Heyday Books in what turned into a wowing battle. In the end, Andrew Lam walked away with the championship head-and-hardware.