Saturday, January 12, 2008, 6 pm
City Lights, 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, San Francisco.

Join the NBCC board, in collaboration with Litquake, book group expo,Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights, Amy Tan, Dave Eggers, Daniel Alarcon, AWP board president Catherine Brady, Maxine Chernoff, W. S. Di Piero, Jane Ganahl, Kathi Goldmark, Paul Hoover, Ann Kent, Wendy Lesser, Yiyun Li, Susanne Pari, Michelle Richmond, Elizabeth Tallent, and friends to celebrate the finalists for the NBCC awards in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, criticism, biography, autobiography, lifetime achievement and book reviewing. Former NBCC finalists and awardees Frederick Crews, Dave Eggers, Troy Jollimore, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others will announce the finalists in each category.