Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 6:29AM August 20, 2011 — In one of the most historic events LDM has ever produced, it was Susan Steinberg who wrestled victory from co-finalist Caitlin Myer by a very narrow margin to win the Literary Death Match crown!
Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 11:00PM September 10, 2010 — Steady Mike Adamick pulled a one-word victory over impassioned, high-fashioned Pam Benjamin in Literary Death Match 33 at the Elbo Room. Adamick secured the win by not quite completing the dying words of Che Guevara: “Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man!”
Fueled by foxy moxie and horsefeathers, co-hosts Alia Volz and comedienne Janine Brito, commanded the crowd’s attention with an absurdist homage to the alphabet that left Volz bleeding on the floor at Brito’s feet. Gertrude Stein would have proud to love these ladies!
Friday, April 10, 2009 at 3:20PM
A new twist for Ep. 17: the LDM partnered with the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll enthusiasts of the Rebel Reading Series (MySpace.com/rebelreadingseries) in a tantalizing celebration of literature and vice at Elbo Room, as Lorelei Lee out-vibrator raced Blag Dahlia to score the Literary Death Match championship.
Friday, February 13, 2009 at 2:53PM February 13, 2009 — The 15th-ever Literary Death Match SF went experimental by turning the LDM’s editorial process transparent, doing away with bi-partisanship, and opening the floodgates on the evening, allowing audience members to participate in the literary savagery as readers and judges both!
Friday, November 14, 2008 at 2:56PM Like a deep-frying turkey, LDM SF XIII at Amnesia sizzled so vigorously it almost exploded. The show’s theme was Family Thanksgiving, and indeed the family jewels figured prominently in three readings. Nevertheless, a story about a man and a fish won the day (and the Literary Death Match championship) for Joshua Citrak of Slouch Magazine.