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Motorcycles & MisfitsPodcast 552: Fixing Santa's CycleThis week on our motorcycle podcast we are joined by Matthew Biberman, who is the author of a brand new children's book called Fixing Santa's Cycle. Did you know that Santa rides a motorcycle? All this time people thought they were hearing reindeer hoofs when it was actually the sweet exhaust sounds from his Vincent. Matthew is the son of bike builder Big Sid Biberman, who was well known for his wrenching skills on vintage bikes. In fact, it was a special build of a Vincati that brought Matthew and his dad close again, and was the subject of the...
2023-12-112h 08
LCLC Oral HistorySeason 2, Episode 5: Ryan EngleyIIn this episode, conference director Matthew Biberman talks with Ryan Engley about current topics and trends in media studies. Currently an Assistant Professor of English at Pomona College, Engley researches the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and media studies. Engley co-hosts the popular podcast Why Theory, along with Todd McGowan, which brings Continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory together to examine contemporary phenomena. This LCLC podcast episode is intended for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and anyone interested in sharing their (humanities-oriented) work at academic conferences. Ryan and Matthew review topics and approaches at the forefront of media studies today to aid those...
2023-09-1226 min
LCLC Oral HistorySeason 2, Episode 4: Olivia SunIn this episode, Matthew Biberman talks with YouTube video essay creator Olivia Sun. With a subscriber base nearing one million, Olivia Sun has emerged as one of the first truly influential practitioners of the new art form of the social media-made video essay. Matthew and Olivia discuss her creative process and the potential for this new mode for thought. Of interest to media theorists and individuals seeking to make socially relevant web-based creative content with broad appeal.
2023-07-2044 min
LCLC Oral HistorySeason 2, Episode 3: Aldon NielsenIn this episode, Conference Director Matthew Biberman talks with Aldon Lynn Nielsen, the George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature at Penn State, about the African American Literature and Culture Society, its history and mission, as well as the two panels the group has organized for the 50th LCLC conference. In addition, Biberman and Nielsen discuss the Society of Umbra with a focus on its legacy, and in particular the women active in that organization. This episode is for scholars and enthusiasts of African American literature and culture.
2023-02-1725 minLCLC Oral HistorySeason 2, Episode 2: Mark MattesIn this episode, Conference Director Matthew Biberman talks with Mark Alan Mattes about American Afterlives, a sequence of three panels he organized for the upcoming 50th LCLC conference to be held this February 2023. This episode is for scholars of American culture as well as enthusiasts of American multi-ethnic literature, including beloved writers such as Phillis Wheatley Peters, Leslie Marmon Silko, Tiana Clark, as well as Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman.
2023-02-0624 min
LCLC Oral HistorySeason 2, Episode 1: Joshua HoeynckIn this episode Conference Director Matthew Biberman talks with noted Charles Olson scholar, Josh Hoeynck about the Olson Society and their slate of panels at the upcoming 50th LCLC conference to be held in February 2023. This episode is for fans of Olson as well as aficionados of contemporary American poetry and the black mountain school of poetry.
2023-01-1332 min
LCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 14: Michael AnaniaIn this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with Michael Anania who headlined the LCLC After Dark Reading this past February 2022 during the LCLC's 49th conference. Michael Anania is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. His published work includes twelve collections of poetry, among them Selected Poems (1994), In Natural Light (1999) and his most recent, Night Songs and Clamors (2018). His work is widely anthologized and has been translated into Italian, German, French, Spanish and Czech. He has also published a novel, The Red Menace, and a collection of essays, In Plain Sight. While at the LCLC, Anania had the pleasure of...
2022-10-0750 minLCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 13: Brenda HillmanIn this episode, conference director Matthew Biberman talks with the celebrated feminist poet Brenda Hillman, who read at the LCLC in February 2022 as the creative keynote for its 49th annual conference. Brenda Hillman teaches at Saint Mary College of California. She is the Poetry Director of Community of Writers as well as Chancellor emerita of The Academy of American Poets and has authored 11 books of poetry (all from Wesleyan University Press). She has edited or translated (either alone or as part of a team) over 20 books. Her next collection of poetry is titled IN A FEW MINUTES BEFORE LATER. This...
2022-08-1949 minLCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 12: Ryan EngleyIn this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with Ryan Engley. Currently an Assistant Professor of English at Pamona College, Engley researches the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and media studies. Along with Todd McGowan, Engley co-hosts the popular podcast Why Theory, which brings Continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory together to examine contemporary phenomena. This LCLC podcast episode is intended for graduate students, advanced undergraduates and anyone interested in sharing their (humanities oriented) work at academic conferences. Ryan and Matthew review all the nuts and bolts of conferencing including preparing submission documents, presenting, handling Q and A, networking and other related...
2022-07-221h 04LCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 11: Alan NadelIn this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with Alan Nadel. Currently the William T Bryan Chair of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kentucky, Nadel has published numerous books on post-WW2 American film, drama, fiction, and popular culture generally. In addition to being a well-noted poet, Alan is also a leading expert on August Wilson and Cold War Studies. Our conversation explored and evaluated the current state of "cultural narrative" studies. We discussed Foucault and Barthes and other cultural narrative progenitors as well as a range of current hot topics within this broad field (such as Black...
2022-05-0233 minLCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 10: Tom Sleigh, Part 2In this episode conference director Matthew Biberman concludes his conversation with acclaimed war journalist and poet Tom Sleigh. Sleigh reads two poems ("Clearance" and the title piece) from his latest collection The King's Touch (Graywolf 2022). Other topics include surfing and dog sledding, as well as the tradition of the American long poem. While illuminating his own poems "Ending" and "Homage to Basho," Sleigh reminisces about fellow poets Seamus Heaney, Mark Strand, and Frank Bidart. For fans and practitioners of contemporary American poetry.
2022-04-1230 min
LCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 9: Tom SleighIn this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with acclaimed war journalist and poet Tom Sleigh. The author of 11 books of poetry including The Kings Touch, Tom has enjoyed sustained critical praise since the appearance of first collection After One. He has also published translations, plays and two collections of his nonfiction prose, the most recent being 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 th...
2022-02-1829 min
LCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 8: Judith RoofIn this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with noted feminist scholar Judith Roof. Now retired, Judith taught at 5 institutions, the last being Rice University where she was William Shakespeare Chair in English. She is the author of The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2018), What Gender Is, What Gender Does (2016), The Poetic of DNA (2007), as well as four other monographs, six edited (or co-edited) books, and more than 80 essays. When I interviewed her in December 2021 she was at work on a critical study of film music co-authored with her former student Mark Travino. For...
2022-02-0736 min
LCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 7: Norman FinkelsteinIn this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talked with the noted poet and critic Norman Finkelstein who has been regularly attending LCLC conferences since 1982. The author of thirteen books of poetry including his New and Selected collection entitled the Ratio of Reason to Magic as well as the forthcoming Thirty-Six/Two Lives coauthored with the poet Tirzah Goldenberg. His critical work includes On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred In Contemporary American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2010) and Like a Dark Rabbi: Modern Poetry & the Jewish Literary Imagination (Hebrew Union College Press, 2019). He writes and edits the poetry review blog...
2021-12-2042 min
LCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 6: Jane GallopIn this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with noted feminist scholar Jane Gallop. Currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Gallop burst onto the literary scene with the publication of her 1982 book, The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Biberman and Gallop discuss her 1990 LCLC Keynote which was later incorporated into her book Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory (1991). Their conversation extends to her most recent book Sexuality, Disability and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus (2018). Other notable topics include queer and crip theory, asexuality studies, scandals and Eve Sedgwick.
2021-11-2943 minLCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 5: Stanley Fish—Part 2In 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.
2021-11-1541 minLCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 4: Stanley Fish—Part 1In 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.
2021-11-0123 min
LCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 3: Gillian Huang-TillerIn 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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2021-10-1240 min
LCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 2: Sue Kirsch and Jeff SteinWhen 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 S...
2021-09-2748 minLCLC Oral HistoryEpisode 1: Alan GoldingIn 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.
2021-09-0738 min
Myopia MoviesThe Twilight Zone Zone - Episode 13: “To Serve Man” and “The Dummy”Every week on The Twilight Zone Zone,we go down Donald Liebenson’s list The 26 Episodes We Talk About When We Talk About The Twilight Zone from Vanity Fair, chronologically by release date and compare two episodes and choose which one to recommend. This week we watched “To Serve Man” and “The Dummy”
“To Serve Man”
Kanamits, nine-foot-tall creatures from outer space, promise they have come to our planet, “above all things, to help the people of Earth.” They have no ulterior motive, they reassure: “We ask only that you trust us.” Which leads to The Twilight Zone’s darkest...
2020-07-2759 minMyopia MoviesThe Twilight Zone Zone - Episode 13: “To Serve Man” and “The Dummy”Every week on The Twilight Zone Zone,we go down Donald Liebenson’s list The 26 Episodes We Talk About When We Talk About The Twilight Zone from Vanity Fair, chronologically by release date and compare two episodes and choose which one to recommend. This week we watched “To Serve Man” and “The Dummy”
“To Serve Man”
Kanamits, nine-foot-tall creatures from outer space, promise they have come to our planet, “above all things, to help the people of Earth.” They have no ulterior motive, they reassure: “We ask only that you trust us.” Which leads to The Twilight Zone’s darkest...
2020-07-2759 min
NTN » The DawgHouse - Motorcycling news, racing and analysisDawgHouse #327 – Motorcycle News, MotoGP, Moto2Motorcycling News
Big Sid’s son continues the tradition.
Matthew Biberman sitting on the recently finished Vincent Black Shadow.
Dan Gurney designs engine for the 2-wheeled world.
Honda teases a MotoGP powered car.
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Moto2/MotoGP from San Marino.
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