February 19, 2014. To remember the brilliance of Taylor Negron, we present an episode in Brooklyn (at Littlefield) in which Negron shined his usual, unparalleled bright, alongside Mobb Deep's Prodigy, and oft-recurring LDM judge Jena Friedman.
Lineup...
JUDGES:
Literary Merit: Taylor Negron, playwright/comedian/actor/everything (The Aristocrats, The Last Boy Scout)
Performance: Albert "Prodigy" Johnson, half of the hip-hop duo Mobb Deep and author of H.N.I.C
Intangibles: Jena Friedman, comedian and field producer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
READERS:
* Rickey Laurentiis, 2013 Creative Writing NEA Fellow and 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Foundation Fellow
* Joseph Riippi, author of A Cloth House and Because
* Jen Doll, journalist and author of Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest
* Mary Phillips-Sandy, writer and managing editor of Comedy Central Digital
Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga
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