LCLC Oral History

In this episode, Conference Director Matthew Biberman concludes his discussion with Stanley Fish. Fish's analysis of first amendment law and matters of free speech has had a sustained influence on American culture and legal practice. Fish talks about his recent books The First, and How to Write a Sentence, as well as reminiscing about Hugh Kenner, Fredric Jameson, Arnold Stein, and David Lodge among others. For fans of Milton, legal theory, and cultural studies.

In this episode Conference Director Matthew Biberman talks with Stanley Fish. First rising to prominence as the Milton scholar who unknowingly inaugurated that branch of literary theory later dubbed "reader-response criticism," Fish then spearheaded a critique of liberalism, transforming him into a key early proponent of CLS (critical legal studies). Fish's analysis of first amendment law and matters of free speech has had a sustained influence on American culture and legal practice, with the rise of "critical race studies" being but one indirect result of these pathbreaking interventions.

In this episode Conference Director Matthew Biberman talks with noted EE Cummings scholar, Gillian Huang-Tiller about the Cummings panels at the LCLC. This episode is for fans of Cummings and T.S. Eliot as well as aficionados of high modernist culture and the lost generation.

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When Paolo Solari died in 2013, the New York Times dubbed him "the architect of the counterculture." An apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright's, Solari founded Arcosanti, a projected visionary city embodying Solari's philosophy of "archology"--a life affirming melding of architecture and ecology. Ada Louise Huxtable, writing in Time magazine, called Solari's renderings “some of the most spectacularly sensitive and superbly visionary drawings that any century has known.” When Solari visited Louisville in 1976, he was at the height of his countercultural fame. Our second episode is devoted to a reconsideration of Solari's legacy through a conversation with Jeff Stein, past president of Solari's Cosanti foundation and Sue Kirsch, Arcosanti's archivist.

In our first podcast our exiting Conference director, Alan Golding, talks with our in-coming director, Matthew Biberman, offering advice along with cherished memories of several major American poets and scholars including Frank Bidart, Robert Creeley, Clayton Eshleman, Susan Howe, W. S. Merwin, Harryette Mullen, Marjorie Perloff, and Nathaniel Mackey.