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Asthmatica
Asthmatica is the first collection of comedic fiction from critically acclaimed poet Jon Paul Fiorentino. The stories within are edgy, eccentric, and A young man finds true love in a household appliance, a wise aunt teaches her nephew how to drive drunk, two juvenile delinquents stalk the milkman, an angst-ridden asthmatic makes an urgent plea to be your alpha male. A text of razor-sharp wit, Asthmatica is an exciting debut.
160 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2005
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About the author
Jon Paul Fiorentino
20 books14 followersJon Paul Fiorentino is the author of I'm Not Scared of You or Anything (Anvil Press) and Needs Improvement (Coach House Books). He is also the author of the novel Stripmalling which was shortlisted for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and five poetry collections, including The Theory of the Loser Class, which was shortlisted for the A. M. Klein Prize and Indexical Elegies which won the 2010 CBC Books "Bookie" Award for Best Book of Poetry.
He has written for The National Post, Walrus, Maisonneuve, sub-Terrain, The Huffington Post, The Montreal Gazette, The Barnstomer, New American Writing, Hobo, Joyland, The Capilano Review, Event, The Winnipeg Review, The Queen Street Quarterly, fillingStation, Prism International, Opium and many other publications.
He lives in Montreal, where he teaches Creative Writing at Concordia University, is the editor-in-chief of Matrix magazine, is a poetry editor for Joyland, the poetry editor for the Snare Imprint of Invisible Publishing, and the fiction editor for the Serotonin/Wayside Imprint of Insomniac Press.
He has written for The National Post, Walrus, Maisonneuve, sub-Terrain, The Huffington Post, The Montreal Gazette, The Barnstomer, New American Writing, Hobo, Joyland, The Capilano Review, Event, The Winnipeg Review, The Queen Street Quarterly, fillingStation, Prism International, Opium and many other publications.
He lives in Montreal, where he teaches Creative Writing at Concordia University, is the editor-in-chief of Matrix magazine, is a poetry editor for Joyland, the poetry editor for the Snare Imprint of Invisible Publishing, and the fiction editor for the Serotonin/Wayside Imprint of Insomniac Press.
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January 6, 2022
a coming-of-age collection of short stories from a guy pov. thoroughly entertained and disturbed at the same time
October 4, 2008
Too often there are writers out there who write humor for humor’s sake, and frankly, if there’s no deeper meaning(s) to be gleaned, then I have trouble not dismissing such work. It’s a bit different with form humor like itineraries, horoscopes, lists, FAQs, and whatnot, but with story humor, I want some insight. Thankfully, Canada’s Jon Paul Fiorentino delivers both humor and insight in his short story collection Asthmatica (Insomniac Press, 2005), though he is mostly known for poetry....
Read the rest in the April 2007 issue of decomP .
Read the rest in the April 2007 issue of decomP .
March 21, 2009
Pretty darn hilarious book by the author of Stripmalling. Semi-autobiographical stories featuring the loserly Jonny, an asthmatic, epileptic adolescent. Incidents involve his liasons with his parents' vacuum cleaner, his attempts to lose his virginity to a female bully, and other embarrassing/unfortunate events. Worth a read for their hilarious descriptions and the interspersal of postmodern theories and inane academia.
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