The LCLC Podcast features candid conversation about and among practitioners and enthusiasts of literature and culture.
Since its inception in 1973, the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture draws many important thinkers and writers to its annual gathering (including Jennifer Egan, Ben Lerner, and Rachel Kushner). Director Matthew Biberman invites friends and LCLC participants to weigh in on particularly pressing concerns including the place and the role of the humanities today. Past guests include Tom Sleigh, Jane Gallop, and Stanley Fish.
LCLC Season 4 Episode 2: Robert Tally and Matthew Biberman discuss Fredric Jameson's Years of Theory
In this episode, conference director Matthew Biberman talks with Robert Tally about the seminar he organized for the 52nd LCLC on the legacy of Fredric Jameson and Jameson's study of post WW2 French Theory titled Years of Theory. Robert T. Tally Jr. is a Professor of English and an Honorary Professor of International Studies at Texas State University. He has written extensively on literature and theory and is the author of a 2014 study Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism. This LCLC podcast episode may interest graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and anyone interested in literature and the humanities in higher education.
16 May 2025
Season 4, Episode 1: Tom Sleigh
In this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with acclaimed war journalist and poet Tom Sleigh about Israel and making sense of the region while the 10/7 war rages on. Sleigh's most recent essay collection is The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees. His mid-career turn to war journalism has garnered Sleigh a new audience while making him one America’s essential poets for understanding our world today. He is also a Distinguished Professor in the MFA Program at Hunter College. Our conversation includes discussion of Tom's forthcoming New and Selected Poems featuring the memorable long poem "Widows" as well as his memoir Rosie (about assisting his mother with her suicide).
13 Dec 2024
Season 3, Episode 4: Sam Vaknin, Part II
Conference Director Matthew Biberman interviews Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., about his insights on narcissism and psychopathy, shedding light on the complexities of anti-Semitism in the modern era.
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