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Entries in Major Jackson (2)

Friday
Oct122012

Brattleboro, Ep. 1

October 12, 2012 — On a chilly early-autumn in brilliant Vermont, Literary Death Match teamed with the Brattleboro Literary Festival that turned the town into Battle-boro for a brilliant, jam-packed night that saw Tayari Jones outduel Victor LaValle in a fierce game of Literary Pictionary by a score of 3-1 to win Jones the Literary Death Match Brattleboro debut. 

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Friday
Mar022012

Chicago, Ep. 7 (at AWP)

March 2, 2012 — In what's being called the "Greatest LDM Ever" (presented by Versal and Painted Bride Quarterly) a superstar-laden celebration of our 200th event at Buddy Guy's Legends culminated in a wild finish, which included the first-ever stripping of the LDM medal, before the night ended with Roxane Gay (author of Ayiti) toppling National Book Critics Circle finalist Major Jackson in the Literary Spelling Bee sudden death, to win by the narrowest of margins. 

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