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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
Book Reviews, Policy & Politics
Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates by UVM’s Tom Sullivan and Leslie Niehoff

    I’m reading former UVM President Thomas Sullivan’s new book, Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates, written in collaboration with Leonard Niehoff of University of Michigan Law… Read More
Book Reviews
Julia Alvarez likes Lila & Theron

BY THE BOOK By the Book: Julia Alvarez New York Times: April 11, 2019 The author of novels including “In the Time of the Butterflies,” just reissued for its 25th… Read More
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Lila & Theron: Bennington Banner Review

By Michael F. Epstein Bennington Banner Aug. 10, 2017 Vermont, with all of its natural beauty and rich history, is a place where two worlds co-exist side by side, largely… Read More
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Lila & Theron: The Herald Review

BY M. D. DRYSDALE for The Herald August 6, 2017 Anyone who wonders what it was like—what it was REALLY like—to grow up on a farm in rural Vermont 100… Read More
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VT History Magazine: Horse-drawn Yogurt: Stories from Total Loss Farm

Horse-Drawn Yogurt: Stories from Total Loss Farm By Peter Gould (Brattleboro: Green Writers Press, 2017 pp. 217, paper $19.95) I had no idea what to expect when I began reading… Read More
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Fate People:Pych Central Review

Fat People By BILL SCHUBART Reviewed by DEVON TOMASULO, MFA For his book Fat People, Bill Schubart has created and gathered a collection of stories that will make you rethink your relationship with… Read More
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Lila & Theron: Seven Days Review

Lila & Theron Bill Schubart, Charles Michael Publishing, 192 pages. $19.95. To many children, this independence is a blessing; but Theron, already orphaned once, feels more alone. Clearly, Hinesburg’s Bill Schubart hasn’t… Read More