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Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1m

From the @minorliteratures.bsky.social vault an interview with the ever-generous, always-engaging Alexander Booth! @wordkunst.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2021/10/11/a...

“How can you make someone like you and why should you even try?”: An Interview with Alexander Booth — Tobias Ryan

Alexander Booth is an American poet and translator, who lives in Berlin. His translations include Friederike Mayröcker, Sandro Penna, Lutz Seiler, and many more, with works from Jürgen Becker and F…

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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Hi! I'm Lur Noise and I do illustration, concept art and comics.

I love drawing sci-fi, fantasy, tech, architecture, critters and plants. I'm available for both commissions and longer work!

#PortfolioDay

Poster style color illustration of An Antidote for Strychnine, a song by The Mountain Goats. It's composed of several panels displaying different images based on the song: lab rats, chemicals, fish bones... Green and blue tones predominate, but the band's name and the song title are written in yellow.

Color illustration of a gas filled armored being. The armor is translucent in parts on the limbs and their spherical head, where said gas can be seen.

Color illustration of some red slipper lobsters resting atop of a tiled, half flooded floor. The tiles are blue and yellow, with fleur-de-lis flowers drawn on them.

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Jun 29

For Want of a Lack — Judson Hamilton

https://minorliteratures.com/2023/06/29/for-want-of-a-lack-judson-hamilton/

For Want of a Lack — Judson Hamilton

There was once a man who lived on a flat geometric plane slick as ice and grey as slate. The plane was situated next to a kidney-shaped abyss the size of a small pool. He had a small shed next to it a...

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Marcus Silcock @postpran.bsky.social · 4h

New Surreal Absurd Story in Bending Genres

I’m delighted to share that my story “Burning Bush” has just been published in Issue Forty-Seven of the always-exciting magazine Bending Genres! I’m thrilled and honored to be in such terrific company — with new work by Kim Magowan, Francine Witte, Glen…

New Surreal Absurd Story in Bending Genres

I’m delighted to share that my story “Burning Bush” has just been published in Issue Forty-Seven of the always-exciting magazine Bending Genres! I’m thrilled and honored to be in such terrific company — with new work by Kim Magowan, Francine Witte, Glen Pourciau, and many more bold, brilliant voices pushing the boundaries of form and feeling. A bit about the magazine: Bending Genres is a vibrant literary journal devoted to hybrid, experimental, and genre-defying writing.

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Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 13h

TIL

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Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 13h

Wow what a day!

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 14h

Wait what now?

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 15h

Juiced!

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Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 15h

Lol - go for it!

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Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 15h

I think I found some sort of online tutorial that taught me to make this cosmic metal goat.

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Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 21h

the arbitrary criteria for publication.

(Full disclosure: Immu sweet spot is around 25 pages and I've had to try and scale back for those reasons.)

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah that makes sense and I think you may be right.

One contributing factor has got to be an unwillingness by lit mags to take stories that are more than 5 pages or so. I get it re:attention spans, digital best practices but their is no inventive for people to write longer work if it doesn't meet

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! Exactly.

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

The same goes for short story collections imo

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Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Now THIS we can agree on.

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Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Until we meet IRL!

(Where I hope this subject never comes up 😁)

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Reading in the sense of comprehension, yes.

Reading as the skill of parsing text visually, no.

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Comprehension has nothing to do with it, but reading has everything in fact to do with sight and printed matter.

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Looking and reading.

Hearing and listening.

One involves no comprehension and the other does.

Using read as a stand in for comprehension however etymologically correct doesn't change the fact that they are entirely different skills.

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

This is more of a discussion over a beer type conversation 😁

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

No they have comprehended it. Making "read" stand in for "comprehension" doesn't change the fact that they're two different skills.

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

So if you have a culture with a tradition of oral storytelling but low literacy rates, those people are ... reading when they listen to an orator?

Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to a book being read is not the same as reading it for yourself.

"I read you" in radio parlance is simply meant to stand in for "I understand" not that they've used their eyes to decipher text.