Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 9:04AM November 14, 2023 — After ten long years away, Literary Death Match returned to the City of Brotherly Love for a whizbang affair at City Winery that saw Eshani Surya outlast co-finalist Joseph Earl Thomas in a tense battle of Arithme-Lit, winning Surya the LDM Philadelphia, Ep. 6 crown, and literary immortality to go with it.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 10:29AM June 7, 2011 — In a stand-up-and-cheer finale for the ages at The Hideout, Ian Belknap was clutch when it mattered, slam-dunking a picture of Max Brod to win a dramatic, basketball-style game of Down with Book Burners!, outsniping co-finalist Samantha Irby 5-4 to win the Literary Death Match crown.
Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 7:34PM April 1, 2010 — The Literary Death Match return to The Hideout was an April Fool's evening rife with surprise, as Caroline Picard of Green Lantern Gallery & Press outdueled The Encyclopedia Show's Robbie Q. Telfer in the strangest, most un-finale finale ever (detailed below), to take home the Literary Death Match championship.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 3:00PM The LDM (Ep. 10) returned to NYC’s finest venue (The Kitchen) for a party that doubled as the Opium7:7 NYC launch. The result: an event that shook Chelsea with a blare of talent, whimsy and ridiculousness. Once the dust and invisible bullets had settled, Guerrilla Lit Reading Series representative Dennis DiClaudio out-Laser Tagged co-finalist, and L Magazine Literary Upstart rep Lincoln Michel in a three-round duel that won DiClaudio the LDM title.
Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 3:59PM In a battle too bloody for photographs, Opium’s annual Literary Death Match in the Park featured Opium’s own going head-to-head, as founding editor Todd Zuniga outraced executive editor Elizabeth Koch in the Trash Bag Race finale.