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Opium7:7 Launch & Literary Death Matches in SF (Oct. 6) and NYC (Oct. 14)! |
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by Todd Zuniga
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We're over the moon about Opium7:7, and so starts the drum banging for coast-to-coast parties to get the issue directly into your hands. On October 6, our Litquake Edition of the LDM goes berserk (which had Daniel Handler winning it all last year), followed by a return to The Kitchen for our launch in NYC--a beautiful space perfect for high LDM drama.
Details are on the LiteraryDeathMatch.com website, and below...
SAN FRANCISCO ON OCTOBER 6
Sponsored by the SF Chronicle, Opium’s Litquake2 LDM doubles as the launch party for Opium7:7, arguably the finest (and certainly the luckiest) Opium to date.
 For the price of admission ($15) you’ll seriously support both Opium and Litquake, receive a free copy of Opium7:7 (featuring a cover by Chuck Close, a cartoon by Art Spiegelman, an excerpt from Neil Labute and more!), a pin for the lapel of your choice, and you’ll see the most star-studded lineup of literary performers in the history of the LDM. Hosts Todd Zuniga (Opium Magazine) and Sky Hornig (LDM West Coast Curator) welcome powerhouses Tom Perrotta (Election), Katherine Taylor (Rules for Saying Goodbye), Steve Yarbrough (The Oxygen Man) and Eric Puchner (Music Through the Floor) to exchange bookish blows, then be critiqued by our cast of brilliant judges: last year’s LDM Litquake champ, Daniel Handler (Adverbs), Believer managing editor Andrew Leland, and hilartiste Debi Durst. The culmination: a blockbuster finish that will shock, awe, and most definitely delight.
When: October 6 (doors at 7:30, show at 9)
Cost: $15 (admission, plus Opium7:7)--pre-order now to avoid a line or a sell out!
Result: Hysterical laughing and drinks!
Afterparty: No question, and conveniently in the same space no less!
Bios:
Debi Durst
Involved in SF comedy scene for over 30 years, Debi is currently Board President of Comedy Celebration Day and the official emcee of SFMTA’s Cable Car Bell Ringing Competition. A native San Franciscan with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from SFSU, her favorite colors are orange and black.
Daniel Handler is the author of three novels, most recently Adverbs, and a sequence of books for children under the pseudonym “Alice Walker.”
Andrew Leland is managing editor of the Believer magazine.
Tom Perrotta has written six novels, including Election and the New York Times bestsellers The Abstinence Teacher, Joe College, and Little Children. Election became an acclaimed movie directed by Alexander Payne, and Perrotta received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of Little Children. Perrotta has taught at Yale and Harvard, and lives near Boston.
Eric Puchner is the author of the story collection Music Through the Floor, a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he is currently finishing a novel to be released by Scribner.
Katherine Taylor is the author of Rules for Saying Goodbye, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2007. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Town and Country, Elle, Details, and Ploughshares, among others. She has won a Pushcart Prize and the McGinnis Ritchie Award for Fiction.
And more!
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NEW YORK CITY ON OCTOBER 14
Brace yourself for NYC’s biggest Literary Death Match of the year, as Opium teams up with The Kitchen to create a spectacle like none other.
An epic lineup will feature three of NYC’s best reading series and LA’s finest. Katherine Taylor (Vermin Reading in LA), Thomas Hopkins (L Magazine’s Annual Literary Upstart), Dennis DiClaudio (Guerrilla Lit) and Thaddeus Rutkowski (Poetry v. Comedy) will be judged by the New Yorker’s Ben Greenman, videogum.com’s Gabriel Delahaye and funnylady Jodi Bullock.
Avoid the line and pre-order your ticket now!
When: October 14, 7 p.m. (doors at 6:30)
Where: The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th St.
Cost: $7 (admission, plus Opium7:7)
Result: Ridiculousness and gunfire!
Afterparty: The Park, 118 10th Ave.
Todd Zuniga is Opium's founding editor, and the president of Opium for the Arts. His fiction has appeared in print and online. He lives in Brooklyn.
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