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LDM Press Kit
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Print
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Tall Tales: War of Words
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Writers Engage in Literary Death Match
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"Sex, Booze and Competitive Storytelling"
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LA Times Faces to Watch 2012: Todd Zuniga
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Tulsa hosts its first Literary Death Match
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Smackdown between scribes: Todd Zuniga discusses the Literary Death Match
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Surely, they jest — as much as possible
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The Great Death Match Read-Off
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Dueling in Meter and Metaphor
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"LDM is one of a growing number of literary events that deliberately seek to subvert audience expectations by taking something the general public perceives as highbrow—serious literature—and making it accessible and fun."
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TimeOut Beijing previews the second-ever China LDM
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The new wave of literary events
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LA Times' Jacket Copy previews the Literary Death Match LA debut
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"Marlowe aside, writers are probably the last people you'd expect to find in a bar brawl."
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Boston's Literary Death Match Debut
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War of the Words
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Todd Zuniga and Elizabeth Koch, editors of the literary journal Opium, wanted to add some sizzle to the local lit scene - a friskiness to foil the preciousness of literary readings.
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"Literary Death Match exudes attitude." -Edward Guthmann
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Sentenced to Death
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TV
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LDM Ljubljana gets the TV treatment
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It starts out like any other literary reading...
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Web
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An interview with Adrian Todd Zuniga
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Literary gameshow entertains College with raucous humor
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Reading (and Spelling) to the Death
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A Reality TV Competition About Reading? Literary Death Match Wants a Show
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Writers and NERF Darts
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Death by a thousand words
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Battle of the Genres
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Of Moby, Mustaches, & Literary Death Matches (Plus Why L.A. is "the next Berlin")
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Literary Death Match Tricks Sexy People into Attending Book Fair Event
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Going at it hammer & "tongue"
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"Shanghai International Literary Festival will soon be ringing to the sound of raucous laughter"
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No blood at Literary Death Match
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Literary Death Match NYC: The Forecast Edition
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"Literary Death Match is hardcover love with a paperback touch."
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Highbrow smackdown: Writers prepare for Literary Death Match
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"Events like LDM are helping to revitalize the coolitude of the printed word."
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Literary Death Match 100: New York City Edition
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Literary Death Match in L.A., and beyond.
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"100th Literary Death Match quakes Litquake."
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SFist Interviews: Literary Death Match Co-Creator Todd Zuniga.
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"Wily writers do battle in Literary Death Match."
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Reading as a Spectator Sport.
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"To audiences, the event meant forming closer bonds with people in Beijing’s literature community."
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The LDM Beijing, Ep. 2 warm-up
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The New Storytelling.
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The Rise of the Literary Night Out: Anna Goodall's take on LDM and the future of nerdish nights
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Trevor & Simon's Simon Hickson on pre-LDM jitters
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Beth Spotswood's take on "an unscheduled throwdown at the Death Match"
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"If the goal of the evening was to create a fun, light, wild atmosphere to enjoy good writing, then Literary Death Match was a huge success."
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"I'm convinced we can trick people into reading if we do it right."
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Readers "dish out their punchiest wordsmithery" in the Twin Cities' first LDM!
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The literary side of Mission Creek Festival
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The South's LDM Debut!
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"I do hope the writers who perform are able to show that there’s more to the Savannah literary scene than Flannery O’Connor.”
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"Anyone who thinks old school bookstore readings could use a reboot should check out Literary Death Match."
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"While amusing, her words reminded me poignantly of just how much of our day-to-day conversation is preoccupied with things, not ideas or feelings, and in the final analysis, just how meaningless things can be."
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“While the days of a Norman Mailer threatening to take this shit outside are, like the five-martini lunch and freelance writing budgets, no longer the norm, at least the Literary Death Match offers the spectacle of writers squaring off.”
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“When a guy contacts you to ask if you want to represent at something called a Literary Death Match, it's hard to refuse.”
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"Still can't get enough Tamblyn? She'll also be judging the Literary Death Match, Opium magazine's long-running authorial face-off."
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"Go to the Literary Death Match homepage and you’ll see five cities listed; San Fran, London, Paris, NYC and….Raleigh? Yup."
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Seattle's Death Match Debut!
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Put boring literary evenings out of their misery – with a Death Match
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Review: Literary Death Match at the Old Queen's Head
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"The winner of the Literary Death Match was Lisa Suckdog, hands down. She took something as esoteric as getting fired for discussing piss-drinking and turned it into an inspiring manifesto anyone can get excited about."
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When Writers Go Guerilla it’s a Literary Death Match
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"Competitive-reading series Literary Death Match requires authors to step out from behind their writing desks and show some performance chops "
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LDM in the Park
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"Expect a raucous night; when the series debuted in San Francisco last year, a contestant reacted to criticism by making a judge wear his beer."
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"Opium’s Literary Death Match is a competitive, humor-centric reading series that features four readers (who represent print and online literary concerns) in an edge-of-your-seat read-off, all critiqued by three all-star judges."
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"The editors of Opium Magazinecreated Literary Death Match as an antidote to the stultifying atmosphere that afflicts many literary readings." - Toby Warner
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"The lit series everyone's talking about isn't afraid to make a scene."
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Contact
For press Inquiries please contact Todd Zuniga at todd@opiummagazine.com.
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