NY Times Covers Litquake

Litquake went bi-coastal this week as The New York Times began its coverage of the festival.  Read the lead to the inaugural post (and a link to the full piece) below. Keep watching The NYT online ArtsBeat—and you might want to give the dead-tree version a really close look this Sunday!

Litquake: Bookworms Come Out to Play
By Bruce Weber from The New York Times, ArtBeat, The Culture at Large
SAN FRANCISCO — Litquake, the warmly raucous festival that celebrates this city’s formidable book-loving scene, is 10 years old this year, and it was inaugurated Friday night at “Black, White and Read,” a masked ball upstairs at the Herbst Theater. Well, actually, it was only semi-masked. Some people went all out and dressed to recall Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel in New York in 1966. Others just pretended, carrying cardboard face masks of Allen Ginsberg, Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amy Tan or other recognizable literary locals. It was funny and cute.