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WHAT IS SHE? |
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| Age: | 100 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | California |
| Country: |  United States |
| Zodiac: |  Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21) |
| Last Login: | May 1, 2008 (601 days back) |
About Me |
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| 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 the forthcoming novel How Far Is the Ocean From Here, for Rain Taxi Review of BooksPowell's Amazon Booksense I will occasionally be blogging here: | |
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| reading and writing; flea markets, thrift stores, tag sales; autumn; red wine; paper moons; black cats; circus sideshow ephemera | |
I'd like to meet:Human oddities. |
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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 and All This Heavenly Glory, 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, 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, The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Pia Z. Ehrhardt's Famous Fathers, Mary Otis' Yes, Yes, Cherries, and Jillian Weise's The Amputee's Guide to Sex—all highly recommended. |
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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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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Swinger |
| Occupation: | storyteller |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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six random things |
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| I've been "tagged" by Ronlyn Domingue, which leads me to my first random thing:
1. Growing up, I was terrible at tag and any sports that involved running, jumping, or hitting a ball. I could swim... Posted by noria on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:30:00 PST |
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superhero story contest |
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| I've got a new story coming out in the anthology Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories, due out this summer.
In the meantime, Simon & Schust... Posted by noria on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:58:00 PST |
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santi: lives of modern saints |
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| I have a new story, "The Veil of Saint Veronica," in the anthology Santi: Lives of Modern Saints. Order it from Black Arrow Studio & Press, or from your local bookstore, or, if you must, from Amaz... Posted by noria on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:18:00 PST |
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Patry Francis, author of The Liar’s Diary |
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| Today many writers are supporting one of our own in her time of need.
Go to Litpark to read all about how this amazing day came to be. ... Posted by noria on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:15:00 PST |
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baby, im a star (with pink eye and a brown caftan) |
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| Read it here. Posted by noria on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:26:00 PST |
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artists in their natural habitat |
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| After-dinner conversation at Headlands Center for the Arts. Listen.
(it starts around the five-minute mark)... Posted by noria on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:00:00 PST |
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inside san quentin (part two) |
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| Read it here. Posted by noria on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:08:00 PST |
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inside san quentin: the big house by the bay (part one) |
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| Read it here. Posted by noria on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:38:00 PST |
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mrs. dalloway eats at the miss florence diner |
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| Read it here. Posted by noria on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:46:00 PST |
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a really bad review |
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| From The Indicator: Amherst College's Journal of Social & Political Thought:
"...out of the nine stories in the book I found three salvageable. The others, mostly written in a third person omnisci... Posted by noria on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:34:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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~Kim~, Koren, Jessica, Sara Gran, LCRW, Charlie, Eric Spitznagel, Elizabeth Crane, Dan Chaon, T Cooper, Ray Robinson, Michael A. FitzGerald, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Jennifer McMahon, Razi, from The Mercy of Thin Air, Bryan Charles, Marcy Dermansky, scott, Kelly Braffet, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Yes, Yes, Cherries: Stories by Mary Otis, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Bee, Jillian, Monique, IOTA Publishing, Heather Fowler, Stephen M. Williams "The Boy Wonder", Latham Shinder, Apex Reviews, joseph, Pop Salvation, PieQueen, Richard Bardsley, Daisy, Timothy Gager, Patt, Karen Harrington, Amy, Xavier House Reviews, Anita™, Paul Elwork, ~impudent~, TONY, SanBo, Tia/The Creativ1, The 4th Dimension, shelly, REVOLUTION of REAL WOMEN ™, Anthony J Langford - Writer, A Life Less Convenient, Jody Gehrman, Kelly Steed Speculative Fiction Author, Elizabeth, Pamela, Brandon Layng, Alice Anderson, The Official Freestyle LDN™ Page:York Pics Up Soon, mikel k poet, A Crooked Faint Smile™
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