Michael Palmer and more 2012 Northern California Book Award winners

16 AUGUST 2012 — thursday

A reading by winners of the Northern California Book Awards 2012, celebrate with award-winning authors and finalists reading from their new books and talking about their writing process and passions: POETRY: Thread by Michael Palmer; CREATIVE NONFICTION: Maya Roads: One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest by Mary Jo McConahay; TRANSLATION-FICTION: The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, translated from Russian by Anne O. Fisher; TRANSLATION-POETRY: The Changing Room by Zhai Yongming, translated from Chinese by Andrea Lingenfelter; GENERAL NONFICTION (finalist): Natural History of San Francisco Bay by Ariel Rubissow Okamoto and Kathleen M. Wong, hosted by Joyce Jenkins, editor of Poetry Flash, chair of Northern California Book Reviewers, Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, next to Montgomery BART, $12/members free, 6:00 (www.milibrary.org)