Clarence Brown in Baltimore Feb 29, 2012 7:00 PM

Local author and poet, Clarence Brown, will be reading from and signing copies of his debut novella, Needs.About the Book:NEEDS portrays Baltimores drug world as only a recovering addict can show itfrom the alleys to the precincts, the neighborhoods to the hoods, the dives to the churchesshown through the eyes of a pair of police detectives who also are a romantic couple (and one of the pair is a heroin addict), the dealers, the down and out, the down but rising. Youll hear their street voices and their inner voices, and youll know more about their world than you ever thought you could. You may also know more about your own.About the Author:Clarence Brown is a recovering addict who is now making a career of helping other addicts in Baltimore. He speaks and reads from his writings at venues such as the Eubie Blake Center and the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as in various community organizations. A longtime poet, Brown completed the novel NEEDS as part of a fiction-writing course at Johns Hopkins University. Location Information: Homewood - Barnes & Noble JHU Book Store 3330 St. Paul Street Baltimore, MD 21218 Phone: 410-662-5850