noria
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101 years old
California
United States



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    noria's Interests
Generalreading and writing; flea markets, thrift stores, tag sales; autumn; red wine; paper moons; black cats; circus sideshow ephemera
BooksAngela Carter's Nights at the Circus, Elizabeth McCracken's The Giant's House, Barbara Gowdy's We So Seldom Look on Love, Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Mary Gaitskill's Veronica, George Saunders' Pastoralia, Mary Robison's Why Did I Ever, Jane Bowles' My Sister's Hand in Mine, Nabokov's Lolita, Grimm's fairy tales, Lucy Corin's Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls, Maggie Nelson's Jane: A Murder, Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners. Recent reads of books by MySpace friends include: Sara Gran's Come Closer, Dope, and Saturn's Return to New York, Dan Chaon's Among the Missing and You Remind Me of Me, Elizabeth Crane's When the Messenger is Hot, All This Heavenly Glory, and You Must Be This Happy to Enter, Kelly Braffet's Last Seen Leaving and Josie and Jack, Hillary Carlip's Queen of the Oddballs, Frank Portman's King Dork, Rachel Sherman's The First Hurt, Ronlyn Domingue's The Mercy of Thin Air, Bee Lavender's Lessons in Taxidermy, Scott Snyder's Voodoo Heart, Rob Roberge's More Than They Could Chew, Tara McCarthy's Love Will Tear Us Apart, Tish Cohen's Town House, Jennifer McMahon's Promise Not to Tell and Island of Lost Girls, Erin Vincent's Grief Girl, Charlie Anders' Choir Boy, Eric Spitznagel's Fast Forward: Confessions of a Porn Screenwriter, Jerry Stahl's I, Fatty, Daedalus Howell's The Late Projectionist, Bryan Charles' Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way, Karen Russell's St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Marcy Dermansky's Twins, Michael A FitzGerald's Radiant Days, T Cooper's Lipshitz 6, or Two Angry Blondes, Ray Robinson's Electricity, Pia Z. Ehrhardt's Famous Fathers, Mary Otis' Yes, Yes, Cherries, Jillian Weise's The Amputee's Guide to Sex, and Robin Romm's The Mother Garden—all highly recommended.
Heroes"She was afraid of all the Freaks, for it seemed to her that they had looked at her in a secret way and tried to connect their eyes with hers, as though to say: we know you."—Carson McCullers

"The freak in modern fiction is so disturbing to us because he keeps us from forgetting that we share in his state."
—Flannery O'Connor

"There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats."
—Diane Arbus

"Not everything that's beautiful has to be perfect."
—Johnny Weir

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Status:Swinger
Zodiac Sign:Scorpio
Occupation:storyteller



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   noria's Blurbs
About me:
Marvelous Living Human Curiosity & Peerless Prodigy of Physical Phenomena - Strange But True - Alive! - Why???

About my book:

"Some books of short stories are more than mere collections: they are their own worlds. Noria Jablonski’s Human Oddities is a strange, beautiful, terrible, slantwise world, full of the human tenderness that is brought on by both love and violence. These are beautifully written stories by an author who understands that the odd is no more unlikely or unlovable than the 'normal,' and that those among us who are statistically improbable deserve light, language, and a certain loving ruthlessness."—Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Giant's House and Niagara Falls All Over Again

"Noria Jablonski pulls off a high-wire balancing act that left this reader swooning. The inevitable comparisons to Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love are deserved, not because of Jablonski’s sideshow-worthy characters, but because of her remarkable ability to juggle hilarity, death, gimlet-eyed optimism, and the unchecked giddiness of being alive."—Heidi Julavits, author of The Mineral Palace, The Effect of Living Backwards, and The Uses of Enchantment

"Jablonski's debut story collection is filled with insistent bodies, carved open, sewn up, cut apart, made monstrous, made beautiful or disguised as someone or something else altogether... She subsumes the innately spectacular nature of her stories under an elliptical lyricism that brings her characters' emotional lives delicately, respectfully, to the fore. Even at their most self-hating moments, they possess a wry sense of irony, an amazing resilience and, occasionally, a heartbreaking joy... An exciting debut that rises to the risks it takes."—Kirkus Reviews

"Jablonski's revelations are quiet, delicate things, like the child in the corner who raises his hand to suggest that under the bruises, scars, and stitches, we are all very much the same."—San Diego Union-Tribune

"The theme here is the body in all its gucky glory: mutable, manipulated, and manipulating... More than merely quirky or unconventional, these fascinating characters live in worlds made rich by Jablonski's fluid prose and startling imagery... These people—who seem as if they could be from other planets, and yet who describe us at our least controlled and most elemental—come circling around, and bless us."—Amy Shearn, author of How Far Is the Ocean From Here, for Rain Taxi Review of Books

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Wayne





Aug 7 2008 6:14 AM

Greetings Noria :-)
Thought you and your friends would enjoy a story from my book in progress. Check my recent blog and let me know if you think I'm on the right track. Peace...
Kate





Jul 29 2008 9:55 PM

Thanks for your kind words! Glad to be in touch with another Bay Area writer. Perhaps we'll cross paths at some point outside of cyberspace.
Robin Romm





Jun 20 2008 11:52 PM

Thanks so much for your words about The Mother Garden. I'm late, too, but am ordering your book now. It's summer! I can actually read it!
Warmly,
RR
Renaissance Dell'Arte





Jun 18 2008 6:26 PM

Thanks for connection.
Keep up the creative energy.
Kiss,
Renaissance Dell'Arte
R.A. Nelson





Jun 20 2008 2:52 AM

Thanks for adding me, Noria. Your book sounds amazing! Good luck with all you do.

russ
shelly





May 29 2008 7:24 PM

"ding-dong! i'm an alarm clock! it makes perfect sense!"

i miss you.
Elizabeth Crane





Apr 28 2008 10:49 PM

Yay myspace! It was so great to meet you as well! I hope we'll be in the same place again at some point, maybe Chicago.
Monique





Apr 27 2008 2:44 AM

Thanks for the add.
View from my window
Ronlyn Domingue





Apr 25 2008 10:08 PM

You've been tagged! See my blog for details. Hope you're working your writing magic.
Heather Fowler





Feb 22 2008 6:02 AM

I must confess, I love your asparagus song. ;) Hope all is wonderful with you. Warmest, H
Stephen M. Williams "The Boy Wonder"





Feb 26 2008 4:52 PM

Hey Noria,

How have you been? What have you been up to? I had a dream with you in it last night. I was at some convention in a skyscraper and I saw you hanging out with Poppy Z. Brite, so I decided to say hello and you glared at me and said "Now is not the time!"

I know, how anticlimactic.

I hope you're doing well,
S

PS: Do you have any idea where Kelly disappeared to?
Elizabeth Crane





Jan 28 2008 9:20 PM

Aw, thanks, Noria, you're too kind! I hope I'll get to meet you when I'm out your way in April.
I LOVE your asparagus pee song!
xoxo
Apex Reviews





Jan 26 2008 10:10 PM

Thanks for being our MySpace friend, Noria! Looking forward to reviewing your work soon.


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joseph





Jan 25 2008 2:00 AM

thanks for the add!
Pop Salvation





Jan 22 2008 10:37 PM

oddities make the best superstars.

all my best!

xo.
PieQueen





Jan 18 2008 7:36 PM

Hi Noria! happy new year...I'm back in San Francisco (til June) and would love to see you and catch up...drop me a line! xxx stephanie
Richard Bardsley





Jan 22 2008 5:35 PM

Thanks for the add!
Heather Fowler





Jan 17 2008 8:13 PM

Thanks for the friendship, Noria! :) Looking forward to taking a peek at your blogs. Warmest, H
Daisy





Jan 17 2008 4:02 AM

Thanks for the add from Daisy Dooley

Human Oddities sounds amazing Noria!
Timothy Gager





Jan 9 2008 7:48 PM

See you on the pages of Santi
Patt





Jan 4 2008 12:31 PM

Hey Noria, Happy 2008!!!
      
Karen Harrington





Jan 2 2008 12:48 AM

Happy New Year. Wishing you all the best this year! - Karen H.
Stephen M. Williams "The Boy Wonder"





Dec 24 2007 4:31 PM

Merry Christmas Noria =] hopefully only packages this year, no coal.
Yes, Yes, Cherries: Stories by Mary Otis





Nov 26 2007 8:49 PM

Dear Noria,

A big thank you for your kind comments. My week is made. x Mary
Stephen M. Williams "The Boy Wonder"





Nov 14 2007 3:39 PM

How have you been? What have you been up to?
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