noria
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WHAT IS SHE?
Female
101 years old
California
United States
Last Login: 5/10/2009
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| General | reading and writing; flea markets, thrift stores, tag sales; autumn; red wine; paper moons; black cats; circus sideshow ephemera | | Books | Angela 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."
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noria's Details
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| Status: | Swinger | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Occupation: | storyteller |
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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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