Bill Schubart

Bill Schubart has lived with his family in Vermont since 1947. Educated locally and at Exeter, Kenyon, and the University of Vermont. He is fluent in French language and culture, which he taught before entering communications as an entrepreneur. He co-founded Philo Records and is the author of the highly successful Lamoille Stories (2008), a collection of Vermont tales. His bibliography includes three short story collections and four novels. His latest novel Lila & Theron is distributed by Simon and Schuster recently won a Benjamin Franklin Silver Award at the Independent Book Publishers for popular fiction. He has served on many boards and currently chairs the Vermont College of Fine Arts, known for its writing programs. He speaks extensively on the media and the arts, and writes about Vermont in fiction, humor, and opinion pieces. He is also a regular public radio commentator and blogger. He is the great, great nephew of the renowned photographer Alfred Stieglitz and lives in Vermont, with his wife Katherine, also a writer.

Bill Schubart's Posts

Questions for our “nonprofit” healthcare system governing boards.

  As healthcare costs in Vermont gobble up more and more expendable resources needed for housing, education, property tax abatement etc. it’s time to ask hard questions and hold providers… Read More

Government isn’t the problem; it’s the solution… if we support and use it responsibly.

          There’s been a lot of blither written on both ends of the political spectrum about how government is not the answer to our accelerating challenges.… Read More

Geezer and Golden Gals in Hinesburg

The ‘Triple G’ group, more sedately called by the Carpenter-Carse Library staff “Senior Meet-up,” gets together every Monday from 1 PM to 2:30 PM in the community room of the… Read More

What has happened to Vermont?

What are the cohesive elements in Vermont’s 247 towns and cities? What sustains their human connection, commerce, and community? Though born in New York City, I grew up in Morrisville… Read More

Happy Poetry Month: Two Superb new Vermont Collections

            I often ask myself if depression is circumstantial or anatomical. Although it runs deep in my family, current events certainly play a role, and… Read More

Our young people are leading in the arts

Dark times in America… Even as Vermont’s only a small part of the whole, our own Senator Bernie Sanders is adding disproportionate reach to our small footprint at a critical… Read More

Vermont, can we go it alone?

I write about Vermont. Others with greater knowledge than I cover the national landscape. My feelings about how we’re doing as a nation are informed by the writers I follow… Read More

In the Shadow of the Lonely Tree: A Memoir of Home, History and Madness

By Cameron Clifford (West Hartford, VT: The Clifford Archive, 2024, pp. 244, paper $20.00). Every book is an adventure; its title a seduction. Readers usually meet key characters in the… Read More

Two Vital New Books about Vermont and Vermonters

                                                  Two books that look at… Read More

UVM Health Network Board Accountability – Facing Facts

Photo courtesy UVM Medical Center Vermont’s VTHC911 coalition is exploring the drivers behind Vermont’s soaring healthcare costs. Newsletters to date have focused on the high operating costs of the University… Read More

Open our governance doors to young people

  Public domain image “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And… Read More

In response to the commentary by former UVM President Tom Sullivan regarding healthcare in Vermont.

Courtesy UVM Medical Center Hospital A recent VTDigger commentary by UVM former President and current professor of Law and Political Science Tom Sullivan raises debatable questions. In his “meeting of… Read More