The Literary Death Match series, which travels the world bringing serious authors together to battle it out on stage for literary supremacy, returns to the Back Room for its sixth-anniversary show. Tonight’s contestants include National Book Award winner Darin Strauss (author of Half a Life), Emmy Award-winning artist Dean Haspiel, Aryn Kyle (author of Boys and Girls Like You and Me), and Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize-winner Kim Dana Kupperman (author of I Just Lately Started Buying Wings). The writers will be judged by children’s-book author Jon Scieszka, actor/comedian/playwright Taylor Negron, and award-winning comedian/writer Sara Benincasa (author of Agorafabulous).
Tue., March 6, 8 p.m., 2012