Fat People - Schubart, Bill
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Schubart tackles the difficult subject of people and their relationship with food. The 14 stories he tells are by turns poignant and evocative, touching on all facets of obesity-addictive behavior, the pressure of prejudice, and the intimate psychological development of people for whom food becomes both companionship and family.

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Schubart tackles the difficult subject of people and their relationship with food. The 14 stories he tells are by turns poignant and evocative, touching on all facets of obesity-addictive behavior, the pressure of prejudice, and the intimate psychological development of people for whom food becomes both companionship and family.
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Autorenporträt
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.

Bibliography:
The Lamoille Stories: Uncle Benoit's Wake (short stories)
Fat People (short stories)
Panhead: A Journey Home (novel)
I am Baybie: Based on the true Story of the Rev. Baybie Hoover and her friend Virginia Brown (novel)
http://www.IAmBaybie.com offers readers a gallery of images of the two women and a live sampling of songs they sang on the street.
Photographic Memory (novel)
The Lamoille Stories II (short stories)
Lila & Theron (novel) (published by Charles Michael Pub., Dist. by Simon & Schuster)