Here's the setup: Four writers of note compete by reading their most electrifying works before a three-person panel of judges and the public. Then, through a weeding-out process involving much humor and general pontificating, the four are whittled down to two and then one. At Denver's first match, local author and musician Daniel Grandbois finally took the honors, beating Laura Pritchett. But at 8 p.m. tonight at Forest Room 5, 2532 15th Street, Sharon McGill, Jessy Randall, Nicky Beer and Nick Francoise will come out with fingers snapping, all coolly cool, for judges Chris Ransick, Curtis Pesman and Tara Anderson. Zuniga and Boulderite Jody Reale host and admission is $10. Get details at www.literarydeathmatch.com.
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