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99.1 FM WQRT-LP is a non-commercial, experimental on-air home for contemporary art, music, and community. Licensed by the FCC with a reach of most of the city of Indianapolis, Indiana (500,000+ people), WQRT is owned and managed by Big Car Collaborative — a nonprofit arts organization and cross-discipline collective of artists. With the help of volunteers, we broadcast from Listen Hear — our sound-art space and audio studio in the Garfield Park neighborhood.
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Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita has been described as a moral fable, a moral outrage, a censor’s temptation, a formal maze, a parody, an exposé of male desire, a resplendent romance, a catalog of sexual abuse, a redemption tale, and a black comedy. How do you deal with all that? Ken Honeywell asked writers Susan Neville, Dan Barden, Anne Laker to give it a try on this month’s meeting of Radio Free Book Club.
Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer talk to Scott Travis, vice president of development for Simon Property Group, They discuss the 50-year evolution of retail design and development, from urban/suburban to total live-work-play destinations.
HIGHEST 2 LOWEST | guest: Jarrod Dortch | air date 9/13/25 | FLICK FIX | WQRTDr. Dortch offers some tough love for both Spike and Denzel in a wide-ranging confab with Anne re: HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (2025, dir. Spike Lee) — an action-packed moral quagmire of class, money, and murky redemption.Jarrod’s *YOU'VE NEVER SEEN* pick is HIGH AND LOW (1963, dir. Akira Kurosawa), Spike Lee’s springboard for his 21st-century reinterpretation.
On this month’s episode, Ken Honeywell reunites the team of Radio Free Book Club members Robin Beery, Jen Bingham, and Alex Mattingly to deal with the many bad decisions made by the cast of Jess Walter’s latest novel, So Far Gone. Have you read it? Join us for the discussion.
Indianapolis-based visual artist Jamila Martin discusses her ongoing photographic project, Caregiver’s Journey, and the 2025 Aurora Workspace Residency with Mary Goodwin, Director at Aurora PhotoCenter. Caregiver’s Journey documents the lives of those who care for loved ones with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Jamila Marin has a BFA in Photography, with additional studies in Psychology and Art History, from Indiana University, South Bend. She is also the sole proprietor, designer, and photographer for the company Eye4Design.
In this episode of Create Hear, Big Car Collaborative Co-founder & Director of Programs & Exhibitions Shauta Marsh speak with guest curator Yashi Davalos about her practice and curating her upcoming exhibit SOMA at Tube Factory artspace.
Flick Fix: SORRY, BABY
Artists Megan Hart and Rachel Leigh huddle with Anne to dish on the dark corners, goofy laughs, and flat wit of SORRY, BABY (2025, dir. Eva Victor), a no-filter, post-#MeToo story of will, irony, and healing on one’s own terms in a world of friends, strangers, and stray cats. And also a mouse.
Lens-based artist Shawn Bush speaks with Mary Goodwin from Aurora PhotoCenter about his series Land, Sea & Air, his August 2025 Aurora + Herron Residency in Indianapolis, publishing photobooks, and being an artist/educator/father. Land, Sea & Air uses layering and collage techniques to explore how corporations and governments use visual media to shape public opinion and policy regarding critical issues, including climate change, while simultaneously downplaying the dangers and their own role in creating crisis.
Flick Fix: SORRY, BABY
Artists Megan Hart and Rachel Leigh huddle with Anne to dish on the dark corners, goofy laughs, and flat wit of SORRY, BABY (2025, dir. Eva Victor), a no-filter, post-#MeToo story of will, irony, and healing on one’s own terms in a world of friends, strangers, and stray cats. And also a mouse.
Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer talk to Bill Brooks, editor and publisher of the downtown Indianapolis newsletter, Urban Times. “The lowdown on Indy’s historic neighborhoods” is now in its 31st year. They discuss urban sociology and the evolution of downtown Indy through the lens of a newsman.
Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer talk with Emily Krueger, President and CEO of 16 Tech Innovation District, about what it takes to lay the groundwork for Indianapolis’ future economy.
On this month’s edition of Radio Free Book Club, we take off for the seedier side of Denver to meet up with Patrick Hoffman’s Friends Helping Friends. Speaking of which: Friends Alex Mattingly, Jen Bingham, and Robin Beery join Ken Honeywell at the scene of the crime.
Imagine an alternate America in which our government decides to round up citizens of Vietnamese decent and put them in concentration camps. That’s what happens in Kevin Nguyen’s novel My Documents, which is the subject of this month’s meeting of Radio Free Book Club hosted by Ken Honeywell and featuring club members Steve Woods, Christine Hudson, and Tim Taylor.
Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer talk with Lars Lawson, owner of Timber Design Company and Timberjack Goods. Hear about his connection to the outdoors, a busy design career, and creating The Art of Politics poster show.
Sure, adolescence is confusing. On the latest episode of Radio Free Book Club, Barb Shoup, Craig Von Deylen, and Matt Gonzales join Ken Honeywell to try to make some sense of Michael Amherst’s novel The Boyhood of Cain.
Laker sibs Anne and Kurt—Chicago Bears fans since birth—examine the triggers for their multi-layered loathing of the Hall of Fame Green Bay Packers quarterback and misanthrope profiled in the Netflix documentary UNTOLD: THE FALL OF FAVRE (2025, dir. Rebecca Gitlitz). As Anne opines on the anthropology of sports, Kurt unveils “the cherry on top of the Brett Favre scumbag sundae.”For the segment *YOU'VE NEVER SEEN*, Kurt calls out WINNING TIME: REGGIE MILLER VS. THE NEW YORK KNICKS (2010, dir. Dan Klores), a 30 for 30 documentary about the fine art of trash talk.
Join us as Ken Honeywell, host of Radio Free Book Club, interviews acclaimed author Barbara Shoup.
Barbara is the author of six novels, including Everything You Want, and serves as the Program Director for the Writers’ Center of Indiana. In this special interview, she and Ken discuss her newest novel, About Grace.
Please note: This conversation includes sensitive content that may not be suitable for all listeners.
FLICK FIX w/ hostess Anne Laker
SINNERS | guest: Lobyn Hamilton | air date 5/9/25Leading with the heart, artist Lobyn Hamilton recounts to Anne the prismatic quality of SINNERS (2025, dir. Ryan Coogler): an inventive, wise, even sacred gaze into the human experience of oppression and resistance -- with vampires galore. On the segment *YOU'VE NEVER SEEN*, Lobyn elects THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (2002, dir. Kevin Reynolds), a classic story about the dead ends of revenge.
On the April 2025 meeting of Radio Free Book Club, host Ken Honeywell found the perfect crew to talk about Miranda July’s best-selling novel All Fours: Laurel Judkins, Kate Shoup, and Sarah Layden. Yes, it’s a great conversation. Yes, there are spoilers.
This month’s Radio Free Book Club crew—Susan Neville, Dan Barden, Steve Woods, and Ken Honeywell—are off to a very-near-future Dublin to witness a scary civil war in Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize-winning novel Prophet Song. Please join us at a safe distance, and mind the spoilers.
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