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Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and 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...
Beauty, Eroticism and Porn
Michelangelo's David courtesy of BBC Media When I was young and in search of the facts of life, there was no evident pornography. The closest we ever got was a book...
*A Strategy for Managing Content amidst Myriad Emerging Network and Consumer Technology Options for Distribution
I. A Strategy for Preserving Content Value and Maximizing Distribution Opportunities (A white paper) “Given the amorphous nature of inflection points, how do you know the right moment to take...
Use It or Lose It
One casualty of the endless roll-up of entertainment, media and consumer electronic companies into ever larger “media conglomerates” is culture itself. An article in the New York Times two years...
Open Letter to the Board of the Vermont Arts Council
February 21, 2009 An Open Letter to the Trustees of the Vermont Arts Council Dear Trustees, I am writing this as an open letter as I was unable to attend...
Arts and Media
Many of society’s future creative endeavors will have no physical medium, raising questions about how those among us who choose some artform as a vocation will make a living. Let’s...
Puccini in Middlebury
From as early as I can remember, I’ve been an opera buff. I remember sitting in the orchestra section at the Old Metropolitan Opera House on 39th and Broadway and hearing...
Brave New World of Publishng
I grew up amid two publishing families. Roger Straus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Alfred and Blanche Knopf. They were both family cousins and close friends of my paternal grandparents....
The Arts: Soul Food
Efforts to defund the National Endowment of the Arts are a quadrennial budget issue here at home. And in many countries, artists, like journalists, are censored, jailed, or even assassinated....
Aretha Brings It All Home
As a student fascinated with recording technology, I had the privilege of interviewing for a job at Columbia Records when I was in my mid-twenties. I was first asked a...
Our Recorded History: Intellectual Property or Cultural Heritage?
As the magnitude of loss becomes more public and musicians express more anguish about the loss of some half a million music masters in the 2008 archive fire at Universal Music...
Role of the Arts & Humanities in Addressing Society’s Problems
I recently attended a quiet conference that brought together leaders and innovators in the arts, humanities, and public broadcast. We met for two days to explore how the arts and...
