On October 17, the comedic, competitive reading series that is Literary Death Match came to Philadelphia for the fourth time. As always, the night was full of laughter and literary hilarity. Judges were comedian Carolyn Busa (co-host of Laughs on Fairmount, voted Philly’s Best Open Mic), Philadelphia Tribune’s lifestyle reporter Bobbi Booker, and one of Philly’s finest storytellers (and playwrights and teaching artists) R. Eric Thomas.
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The four courageous contenders were comedian and writer Dan Wilbur (author of How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life), award-winning flash fictionist Randall Brown (see his book Mad to Live and Matter Press and its Journal of Compressed Creative Arts) Giant Sequins editor-in-chief Kimberly Southwick, and General Idea co-curator Kim Gek Lin Short (author of The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits and China Cowboy).Host Adrian Todd Zuniga brought the charisma and quick wit the fuels the LDM’s success. In the end, Dan Wilbur triumphed and took home the Literary Death Match crown.