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Radio Free Book Club-Every Man A King by Walter Mosley

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Every Man A King by Walter Mosley . Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Steve Woods, and Craig Von Deylen only on 99.1 WQRT

Radio Free Book Club-Trust by Hernan Diaz

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of fantasy author Hernan Diaz 2022 Best Seller, Trust. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Traci Cumbay, Barb Shoup, and Robin Beery only on 99.1 WQRT.

Create Hear- Nat Russell

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond.

In this episode, Jim Walker of Big Car talks with artist Nathaniel Russell

Radio Free Book Club- Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of fantasy author Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Maurice Broaddus, and Alex Mattingly only on 99.1 WQRT

Create Hear-Betsy Stirratt

Big Car's Director of Programs and Exhibitions, Shauta Marsh interviews visual artist Betsy Stirratt. Stirratt’s creative practice focuses on themes about nature, collections and the environment. She is the Founding Director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University Bloomington where she has curated exhibitions and published catalogs since 1987. Exhibiting her own work widely since 1983, solo exhibitions include La Maladie at The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia and the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago and Veiled Taxonomies at the Center for Book Arts in New York. Her work has been included in group exhibits at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and White Columns and Art in General in New York among others. She is the recipient of a Visual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Radio Free Book Club-When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

Join the Radio Free Book Club team—Dan Barden, Susan Neville, Traci Cumbay, and host Ken Honeywell for a no-holds-barred discussion of the provocative novel - When We Cease to Understand the World.

Radio Free Book Club is a radio show book club produced monthly at 99.1 WQRT in Indianapolis. We talk about contemporary novels, with an alternating cast to book club members. Yes: There will be spoilers. We hope you’ll join us!

Words and Music Episode 5 : Lasana Kazembe and Rob Dixon

In the fifth installment of Words & Music: An audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, Jim Walker talks with poet Lasana Kazembe and jazz musician Rob Dixon who collaborated to create the multi-media performance, Firedance. Both artists are based in Indianapolis.

Kazembe, a professor at IUPUI, is The Cabaret's inaugural Artist in Residence. Firedance is an original work Kazembe and Dixon created and performed at the Cabaret in May of 2022. This multimedia, multi-disciplinary event featured live musical performance with storytelling, dance, and live painting on stage. This work drew on the African cultural concept of Serudj-Ta, meaning: to repair and remake the world - the restorative practice by which we replenish the world in order to make it more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Firedance follows Kazembe's highly acclaimed Voodoo of Hells Half Acre that aired on 250 PBS TV stations across the U.S. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1wht61KYM)

Radio Free Book Club - Upgrade by Blake Crouch

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Upgrade by Blake Crouch. #6 on the New York Times Best Sellers list in the first week of publication in the category of Hardcover Fiction. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Steve Woods, and Craig Von Deylen only on 99.1 WQRT

Words and Music Episode 8: Marguerite Young

In this episode, we explore the story of groundbreaking utopian writer Marguerite Young who lived from 1908 until 1995. Born in Indianapolis but living most of her life in Greenwich Village in New York City, Young should be better known beyond literary insiders.

Indiana author Susan Neville, who joins Jim Walker in this episode, and others are working to preserve Young’s legacy and keep her work in print. In 2022, Chatwin Books released Young’s collected poems. This is the first time a press has published a lifelong grouping of Young’s poems — previously out of print for decades. Dalkey Press will also put out a new edition of her hallucinatory masterpiece of a novel — Miss MacIntosh, My Darling — in 2023.Neville was able to spend time with Young after she returned to Indianapolis.

We’ll hear her share an excerpt from, Where the Landscape Moved Like Waves, an essay she wrote about her experience interviewing Young.In addition to the conversation with Susan and more excerpts from her essay, you’ll hear passages of Young’s writing read by Shauta Marsh.

Words and Music Episode 7: Maurice Broaddus and Afrofuturism

Words and Music on WQRT is a series of audio programs highlighting the lives and work of Indiana Writers. The series — produced by Big Car Collaborative and first heard on our FM radio station, 99.1 WQRT and streaming at wqrt.org — is made possible by a grant from Indiana Humanities.

In this episode, Indianapolis-based Afrofuturist writer Maurice Broaddus talks with Oreo Jones about the origins of Afrofuturism. Broaddus's books include the urban fantasy trilogy, The Knights of Breton Court, the steampunk works, Buffalo Soldier and Pimp My Airship, and the middle grade detective novels, The Usual Suspects and Unfadeable. His project, Sorcerers, is being adapted as a television show for AMC. As an editor, he’s worked on Dark Faith, Fireside Magazine, and Apex Magazine.

Audio production for this episode, including music, by Oreo Jones. Excerpts from Octavia Butler read by Yeabsera Tabb.