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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.