Bill Schubart is a writer and a cultural and political commentator. He has chaired a lot of important boards here in Vermont. He's really smart and he talks a lot and a lot of people listen. What he talks less about is that he has struggled with being fat — his word — his entire life.
It's not necessarily that he's averse to talking about it. In fact, he wrote a brilliant collection of stories called "Fat People" in 2010. His weight has been a central and consequential and painful fact of his life, but the F-word doesn't come up in conversation. In this interview, recorded back in 2020, we talk about it.
Music for this show is by Calais, Vermont, musician Brian Clark.
For information about Bill's book, "Fat People," visit his site here.
Rumble Strip is a podcast produced by Erica Heilman and distributed on the radio by Vermont Public. Learn more about the show here.
