San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2007. read full article

The next Literary Death Match, timed to the fifth print edition of Opium, happens at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Swedish American Hall. It’s part of the eighth annual LitQuake, a San Francisco literary festival that starts Saturday and runs through Oct. 13 and features such stars as Armistead Maupin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jane Smiley, Daniel Handler and Gail Tsukiyama.

Even before they’d staged the first Literary Death Match in San Francisco - before they joined local lore with the beer-tossing incident - the Opium editors were invited by organizers Jane Ganahl and Jack Boulware to be LitQuake’s first Friday-night main event. . . .