Posted: 08/09/2010

Meet local author D.R. Belz for a book signing at Greetings & Readings on Saturday, October 9 from 12 to 2 p.m. Welcome to the real and imagined worlds of D. R. Belz where you'll find: * a practicing white witch kindergarten teacher who practical joke brings strange consequences * a young priest-in-training who encounters a literal femme fatale * a homeless man who finds a baby - and something more - in a trash bin on Christmas morning * a catalog of bizarre mail-order products you won't find anywhere else in the universe * an agency in Washington where a million monkeys type out Shakespeare * a suburban doctor who emotionally starves his ailing wife to death * a future in which families employ professional Readers * a cookbook of international cuisine with "real-ingredient" recipes * and more... These are just some of the scintillating - and macabre - realities you'll discover in White Asparagus, a new anthology of work by satirist D.R. Belz. An award-winning writer, Belz has published essays, poetry, and fiction for more than 30 years in a variety of publications including The Baltimore Examiner, The Baltimore Sun, The Evening Sun, City Paper, Souther Literary Messenger, Oregon Review, Antietam Review, MacGuffin, and The Cynic. His work is collected here for the first time. Order White Asparagus before the author's appearance and request a personalized, autographed copy from the event at no extra charge.