AUTHOR READING

Oakland novelist, poet, and travel writer Linda Watanabe-McFerrin has been traveling for most of her life. Her penchant for making journeys is reflected in her quirky-sweet first novel, Namako: Sea Cucumber – named one of the best books for teens by the New York Public Library – about an American girl moving to rural Japan. And Watanabe-McFerrin recently edited the fourth edition of Best Places in Northern California to boot. Hear about some of her experiences on the road when she and local writers Han Pham, Jenny Eng, Mary Gow, Erin Reese, Sana Makhoul, Shannon Baker, and Susanna Kwan present their personal perspectives on travel. Evolved from a writing workshop, this reading event is hosted by a San Francisco treasure and our country's oldest multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization, the Kearny Street Workshop. So get out your atlas and prepare to go somewhere new. (Lydia Brawner)

ROADSHOW: STORIES ABOUT PLACE

Space 180, Wed/25, 7-9 p.m.

180 Capp, SF. $5. (415) 503-0520, www.kearnystreet.org