{"id":1948,"date":"2021-09-15T12:33:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2024-11-14T16:53:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:53:58","slug":"issue-81-contributor-robert-long-foreman-publishing-new-fiction-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/issue-81-contributor-robert-long-foreman-publishing-new-fiction-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 81 Contributor Robert Long Foreman Publishing New Fiction Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Issue 81 Contributor and 2013 Willow Springs Fiction Prize winner Robert Long Foreman has announced Weird Pig<\/em>, a new fiction book coming out on October 1st. According to the Southeast Missouri State University Press site<\/a>, “Weird Pig <\/em>is about Weird Pig, a pig who wants to do right. But doing right isn’t always easy. He drinks. He eats pork chops. He rides a skateboard. He gets his fellow farm animals murdered, and fathers an illegitimate son who has a messiah complex. When Weird Pig leaves the farm he calls home, he inspires a series of children’s books that help bring on the end of his little world-a farm where human and beast alike toil in the shadow of an ever-growing factory livestock complex. From farm to table and beyond, follow the misadventures of Weird Pig in this kaleidoscopic portrait of America, seen through the eyes of a crazed animal who insists on making himself at home there.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erin Somers, author of Stay Up with Hugo Best<\/em>, writes that “Weird Pig <\/em>is one of the funniest books I have ever read. Robert Long Foreman has a special talent for capturing the chaos, brutality, and absurdity of life in America. Like Huck Finn meets Animal Farm on acid.” The book has also been awarded the Nilsen Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weird Pig <\/em>can be pre-ordered now from the Southeast Missouri State University Press website<\/a>, and goes on regular sale October 1st. It can also be pre-ordered and purchased via Amazon<\/a>, as well as from Target’s website<\/a> and from Book Depository<\/a>. The original short story that inspired Weird Pig<\/em> can be found in Copper Nickel magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is Robert Long Foreman’s third book. You can listen to a reading he did from his second book, I Am Here to Make Friends<\/em>, here<\/a>. You can also read his featured story, “The Vinyl Canal”, from Willow Springs Issue 81 here on our site<\/a>. In addition, his short story “The Man with the Nightmare Gun”, which won the Willow Springs Fiction Prize, is in Issue 82 of Willow Springs Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Issue 81 Contributor and 2013 Willow Springs Fiction Prize winner Robert Long Foreman has announced Weird Pig, a new fiction book coming out on October 1st. According to the Southeast Missouri State University Press site, “Weird Pig is about Weird Pig, a pig who wants to do right. But doing right isn’t always easy. He … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25234,"featured_media":1949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36875,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/36875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}