Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 8:37AM April 4, 2018 — LDM returne dto SF with a humdinger at The Battery that set the hearts and minds of onlookers aflame, as Baruch Porras-Hernandez toppled Faith Adiele in an epic Arithme-Lit finale that went down to the wire, winning Porras-Hernandez the LDM SF, Ep. 65 crown, and literary immortality to go with it.
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 1:28PM January 13, 2012 — The first Literary Death Match of 2012 was an instant classic, as our triumphant return to the Elbo Room saw Alia Volz topple Seth Harwood at Literary Author Jumble by a hugely narrow margin of 51.8 seconds.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 5:02AM Literary Death Match SF, Ep. 19 (which doubled as the official west coast launch of Opium8: The Infinity Issue) at Elbo Room was a clash to remember, as K.M. Soehnlein narrowly out-infinity-raced co-finalist Katharine Noel in a wild march towards the Literary Death Match championship.
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.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 3:48PM For Opium’s fifth-ever west coast LDM (SF, Episode 5) at Harlot, stars aligned as four wickedly talented (and outstandingly hilarious) actors from the legendary Killing My Lobster comedy troupe stormed the stage and read from past print issues of Opium Magazine.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 3:54PM Opium’s Literary Death Match kicked off in San Francisco at Harlot with a huge bang, as Sam Hurwitt (Kitchen Sink) wowed the world--or at least the 160 onlookers--by toppling Canteen’s Joyce Maynard in a breathtaking game of Stab a Hole in Nebraska. Joyce’s joust sunk well south of the target, while Hurwitt stabbed a hole into Shenendoah, Iowa, just miles clear of the Nebraska state line.