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- Literary Death Match turns a staid concept—the author reading—into a global, no-holds-barred battle royal. Tomorrow night, it shoots a TV pilot. [1 of 3]
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today’s Very Short List:
lit 10 Dec 2012
on Adrian Todd Zuniga’s Literary Death Match.
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- The concept: Each contestant gets 3.5 minutes to perform a reading, to be judged by a celebrity panel (Susan Orlean, Moby, Jonathan Lethem, others). [2 of 3]
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- Another celebrity judge is Tig Notaro, whose uncanny post-cancer-diagnosis stand-up performance was the comedy moment of the year. [3 of 3]
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- Images: photos by Flickr users snow0810 and tetradtx, under Creative Commons licenses; cover of Tig Notaro Live.
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