“Waste,” a new zine from Eight-Stone Press
Photo by: Eight-Stone Press
On Friday night, the small, charming and Baltimore-centric Eight-Stone Press (ESP) hosted a release party at Atomic Books in celebration of “Waste,” the latest zine in ESP’s long-running, award-winning “Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore” series.
Each of the seven participants in the literary event, which included ESP’s editor William P. Tandy, read from an individual chapter revolving around the theme of, unsurprisingly, waste.
Some of the most memorably-named chapters featured in the zine include: “Baltimore Bonapartes, Nurse Ratched Days and the Martin Gross Neglect” (Earl Crown), “Three Cheerleaders Take Out the Trash Disco Melancholy, or When You Realize You Have Become the Old Queen You Said You Never Would” (Hai Anxieti), “Sick” (E. Doyle-Gillespie), “Banana Gone Bad” (J.T. Cassidy), and Talkin’ Trash (William P. Tandy). In addition to Tandy, the other readers featured on the program’s bill, were: Sharon Goldner, Sarah Jane Miller, Fernando Quijano III, Timmy Reed, Ben Shaberman and Lisa Wiseman.
Eight Stone Press collects stories that, according to its website, “define what it means to live – or simply be – in Charm City. Work, home, neighborhoods, pastimes, nostalgia, Saturday night, Sunday morning, and everything in between, good, bad, and ugly.”
Local videographer Bill Hughes was on hand to record the literary event. Here’s a clip of “Waste” contributor Lisa Wiseman reading during the Friday night’s release party.
Lisa Wiseman Shares her Views on Getting Totally Wasted from William Hughes on Vimeo.
The complete “Waste” reading.
“Waste” Presented at Release Party at Atomic Books (Hon) from William Hughes on Vimeo.
William Hughes’ photos from the “Waste” release.
