Litquake continues tonight with Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match at the Rickshaw Stop, one of San Francisco’s newest and most creative reading series. The doors open at 7:30, a scant ninety minutes from now, with the show set to begin at 9:00. Word has it there are still tickets available. Half literary reading, half elimination contest, four readers get ten minutes each to wow the crowd with their genius. A panel of three judges discuss each offering in terms of performance, literary merit, and “intangibles” — then they select two finalists. The final round is always non-literary, requiring that the writers exercise something they’re not used to using — dexterity, for instance, or people skills. The contestants tonight will be Tom Perrotta (Election), Katherine Taylor (Rules for Saying Goodbye), Steve Yarbrough (The Oxygen Man) and Eric Puchner (Music Through the Floor); the judges will be, according to Opium, “last year’s LDM Litquake champ, Daniel Handler (Adverbs), Believer managing editor Andrew Leland, and hilartiste Debi Durst.” It will be hosted by Opium Magazine’s editor Todd Zuniga, and LDM’s west coast curator, Sky Hornig.