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Author and Looney Tunes scholar/junkie Ryan Felton regales Flick Fix hostess Anne Laker with the cultural context of COYOTE VS. ACME (2026, dir. Dave Green), exploring the original cartoons’ origins, sensibilities, and reverberating influence, alongside the film’s daring present-day theme of corporate rot. Discussed: hand-drawn vs. CGI, Senator Elmer Fudd, seldom seen Looney Tunes characters, the unsung writing behind a great cartoon, and the righteous soul (and shiny nose) of Wile E. Coyote.For **YOU’VE NEVER SEEN**, Ryan implores Anne to savor the color-saturated delights of THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT (1956, dir. Frank Tashlin). Tashlin, a Warner Bros. animator who transitioned to live action filmmaking, transferred visual gimmicks and manic energy to this Jayne Mansfield romp.

This project is part of the Indianapolis Public Library's Making Together social practice art series. What'd I'd Say is a collaborative public art project led by Artist and WQRT Co-Founder Jim Walker, Interviewing visitors at various Indianapolis Public Library locations to hear about what they found, and their hopes for the future.

This project is part of the Indianapolis Public Library's Making Together social practice art series. What'd I'd Say is a collaborative public art project led by Artist and WQRT Co-Founder Jim Walker, Interviewing visitors at various Indianapolis Public Library locations to hear about what they found, and their hopes for the future.

This project is part of the Indianapolis Public Library's Making Together social practice art series. What'd I'd Say is a collaborative public art project led by Artist and WQRT Co-Founder Jim Walker, Interviewing visitors at various Indianapolis Public Library locations to hear about what they found, and their hopes for the future.

This project is part of the Indianapolis Public Library's Making Together social practice art series. What'd I'd Say is a collaborative public art project led by Artist and WQRT Co-Founder Jim Walker, Interviewing visitors at various Indianapolis Public Library locations to hear about what they found, and their hopes for the future.

This project is part of the Indianapolis Public Library's Making Together social practice art series. What'd I'd Say is a collaborative public art project led by Artist and WQRT Co-Founder Jim Walker, Interviewing visitors at various Indianapolis Public Library locations to hear about what they found, and their hopes for the future.

This project is part of the Indianapolis Public Library's Making Together social practice art series. What'd I'd Say is a collaborative public art project led by Artist and WQRT Co-Founder Jim Walker, Interviewing visitors at various Indianapolis Public Library locations to hear about what they found, and their hopes for the future.

This project is part of the Indianapolis Public Library's Making Together social practice art series. What'd I'd Say is a collaborative public art project led by Artist and WQRT Co-Founder Jim Walker, Interviewing visitors at various Indianapolis Public Library locations to hear about what they found, and their hopes for the future.

This project is part of the Indianapolis Public Library's Making Together social practice art series. What'd I'd Say is a collaborative public art project led by Artist and WQRT Co-Founder Jim Walker, Interviewing visitors at various Indianapolis Public Library locations to hear about what they found, and their hopes for the future.

This project is part of the Indianapolis Public Library's Making Together social practice art series. What'd I'd Say is a collaborative public art project led by Artist and WQRT Co-Founder Jim Walker, Interviewing visitors at various Indianapolis Public Library locations to hear about what they found, and their hopes for the future.

On the latest episode of Radio Free Book Club, Barb Shoup, Susan Neville, and Laurel Judkins have a lot to discuss about The Things We Never Say: the latest novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout.

2026 Aurora + Herron Resident Elizabeth Bick speaks with Aurora PhotoCenter Director Mary Goodwin about Bick's practice in photography, her background in dance training, and goals, challenges, and progress printing mural-size silver gelatin during her residency.

"Real Life, Revised" is the reading series of stories, poems & other truths featuring Indiana writers with host Sam Ferrante, hosted with our friends at WQRT.Big thanks to Indiana Humanities, The Butler University MFA Program in Creative Writing, Booth magazine and Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis -CAMi. We're live at Indiana Humanities on the second Sunday of each month, and we love it when writers join us on the open mic. For details, please check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reallife_revised/

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer talk with city-county archivist Jordan Ryan about preserving Indianapolis history in the digital age. From Greenlawn Cemetery and deteriorating microfilm to AI research and unrealized architectural plans, Jordan explores how the city’s archives can shape our understanding of the place we call home.

Artist, poet, and mom Al Hughes joins Anne to savor the work and ethos of a beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, celebrated in the documentary MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD (2026, dir. Sasha Waters). Oliver (1935-2019) devoted her life to transmuting meaning from the everyday rhythms of nature. Al and Anne explore Oliver’s poetry’s enduring, salvational power (a balm for processing grief); the hilarious commentary of Oliver’s Provincetown neighbor (filmmaker John Waters); and why musing on nuts that look like pig noses is a righteous way to spend time.For **YOU’VE NEVER SEEN**, Al invokes SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON (2002, dirs. Kelly Asbury & Lorna Cook)—an animated film about the epic challenge of staying wild—and her younger self’s reaction to its off-the-charts intensity.

"Real Life, Revised" is a prose and poetry reading series featuring Indiana writers held live each month at Indiana Humanities in downtown Indy, featuring host and producer Sam Ferrante and digital producer John Strauss, and supported by Indiana Humanities, the Butler MFA in Creative Writing, Booth, a Journal; and WQRT radio.More: https://www.instagram.com/reallife_revised/Previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/WQRT_Indianapolis/playlists/real-life-revised/04:13 - Sam Ferrante reads two pieces from "The Terrible Stories" by Lucille Clifton07:38 - Kelsey Johnson-Lyons11:14 - Steph Harris13:38 - Annalia Hopper17:27 - Curtis L. Crisler23:38 - Cayden Crouch29:26 - Susan Neville36:33 - Belle Clark42:33 - MaKai Brown46:44 - Kandace Kyere

It’s the Burghers versus the Yeomen in a battle for the soul of the unnamed nation in George Packer’s fable-of-a-novel The Emergency. Should the eminent reporter have stuck to nonfiction?  At the next meeting of Radio Free Book Club, Ken Honeywell, Jen Bingham, Corey Michael Dalton, and Craig Von Deylen have strong opinions.

Real Life, Revised - The Reading Series with Indiana Humanities and the Butler MFA"Stories, Poems, and Other Truths" - Join us for a lively afternoon of poetry, storytelling, and unfiltered reflections on life, love, loss, and everything in between - written and performed by invited and writers and guests at our open mic.

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer sit down with David McKissic, founder and creative strategist at Cerebro Creative House. A self-described cultural architect, David discusses his vision for Indianapolis beyond being a benchmark city.

At this month’s month’s meeting of Radio Free Book Club, we’re spending the day—just one day—in London, mid-June, 1923...which can only mean we’re talking about Virginia Woolf’s classic novel Mrs. Dalloway. Sarah Layden, Matt Gonzales, and Robin Beery join Ken Honeywell inside all those streams of consciousness.

In this episode of Listen Hear, CAMi Director & Chief Curator Shauta Marsh speaks with Indianapolis-based artists Sylvia Thomas and Jess Dunn about their new experimental documentary "Drafts,” which is about the history and evolution of the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) campus. Despite being established artists individually, this is the duo's first collaborative project. Listen to find out more about the creative process, collaborative workflows, inspirations behind the work, and more. "Drafts" is now showing at CAMi through Oct. 18, 2026.

(This is an archived episode from 10/05/2021)In Part 1 of this audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, Susan Neville, Adrian Matejka, Kevin McKelvey, and Jim Walker discuss the beauty and challenges of Indiana through the lens of William Gass's 1968 story, "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country."The episode features excerpts of the story and conversation about what it means to be a writer living and working in Indiana. This series is made possible by Indiana Humanities and produced by WQRT/Big Car.Susan Neville is author of creative nonfiction and short fiction. She teaches at Butler University.Adrian Matejka teaches at Indiana University and served as Indiana Poet Laureate for 2018-19. He's the author of five books.Kevin McKelvey is a place-based poet and artist. He teaches at University of Indianapolis and directs the M.A. in Social Practice Art.Jim Walker is a poet, artist, and teacher. A co-founder and executive director of Big Car Collaborative, Jim worked previously as a journalist .

(This is an archived episode from 10/05/2021)In the 2nd installment of Words & Music: An audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, Oreo Jones, explores the fascinating life and poetry of an Indiana Icon, Etheridge Knight.Susan Neville, Adrian Matejka, Hanako Gavia, and Jones discuss Knight’s later years as a poet living in Indianapolis, his critically acclaimed publishings after prison, and the art of meddling.Born in rural Mississippi, Etheridge Knight would grow to become one of the most prolific voices in the late Black Arts movement in the 70s. In a dark and dreary jail cell in Michigan City, Knight would begin to find his true voice and calling as a pivotal writer/poet of the 20th century. A couple years into his sentence Etheridge would correspond with an American poet, author, teacher, and Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks, and Detroit’s Dudley Randal from Broadside Press. It was his first published poetry book, “Poems From Prison” that would make a splash in the literary world of poetry.

(This is an archived episode from 10/25/2021)In the third installment of Words & Music: An audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, we learn about two new books linked to music from poet Adrian Matejka. This program is made possible by a grant from Indiana Humanities.Matejka, who lives in Indianapolis, teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington and grew up in Germany, California, and in Indiana. He has two new books featuring his poetry just out. The first, published by Penguin, is called Somebody Else Sold the World. The other is really two smaller books in one in which Adrian and two visual artists friends collaborated in response to the music of Funkadelic in images and poems. Third Man Books is the publisher.Adrian also has four earlier collections of poems published and is the former Poet Laureate of Indiana.This episode is divided into two parts. In the first, Adrian introduces his story and talks a bit about his process. The second is a conversation between Adrian and host, Jim Walker.

(This is an archived episode from 11/30/2021)Some call him a cult leader, some call him a religious leader. An alchemist and successful business man, Father George Rapp set the stage for the future of Indiana when he purchased 20,000 acres of land in Southern Indiana. Learn more about this man and the myths behind him through the eyes of author Marguerite Young, Jim Walker and Shauta Marsh. With music and mastering from Andy Fry, you won't want to miss this audio masterpiece.In this episode of Social Alchemy, we follow religious leader from the early 1800s, Father George Rapp's mystical — and often tragic — journey, some of it in New Harmony, Indiana toward a heavenly utopia of his own design.Social Alchemy, made possible with the support of Indiana Humanities and the Efroymson Family Fund, is an ongoing series of in-person and on-air events and programs by the nonprofit arts organization Big Car Collaborative that explores subjects and themes surrounding utopia and dystopia.

(This is an archived episode from 10/5/2021)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 author Susan Neville discusses her most recent collection of fiction stories — The Town of Whispering Dolls — and aspects of life in Indiana that inspired her work. This 2020 collection explores with care and detail the beauty, magic, darkness, danger, and depths of love and life that may go unnoticed in what some consider our “flyover state.” Big Car executive director Jim Walker – himself a writer — talks with Neville. He produced this conversation blended with musical transitions and excerpts read by the author.  Neville, who was born in Indiana and also worked as a writing professor at Butler University, has published six nonfiction books and three short-story collections. Find more about her and her writing at susan-neville.com. This is the fourth installment of Words and Music that previously highlighted Indiana writers Adrian Matejka, Etheridge Knight, and William Gass. In addition to airing on WQRT, Words and Music can also be found on Spotify and other streaming platforms.

(This is an archived episode from 1/6/2022)Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — 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. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.In this program, Miah Michaelsen, the new executive director of the Indiana Arts Commission, talks with host Jim Walker of Big Car about her goals for the arts in our state and more.

(This is an archived episode from 1/20/2022)Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — 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. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.In this program, Michael Huber, the President & CEO of the Indy Chamber , talks with host Oreo Jones of Big Car about goals for the arts in our state and more.

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — 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. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.In this program, 18 Collective Artist Rebecca Robinson , talks with host Dr. Jarrod Dortch of APLR during a special MLK Day celebration.

(This is an archived episode from 1/20/2022)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, Oreo Jones interviews photographer Kris Graves, the most recent Artist in Residence at Aurora PhotoCenter and whose exhibit "A Southern Horror" is Feb.4-March 20 at Tube Factory artspace's Guichelaar Gallery. Graves (b. 1982 New York, NY) is an artist and publisher based in New York and California. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from S.U.N.Y. Purchase College and has been published and exhibited globally, including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Getty Institute, Los Angeles; and National Portrait Gallery in London, England; among others. Permanent collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Institute, Schomburg Center, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Brooklyn Museum; and The Wedge Collection, Toronto; amongst others. Graves also sits on the board of Blue Sky Gallery: Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland; and The Architectural League of New York as Vice President of Photography.

(This is an archived episode from 2/1/2022)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, Shauta Marsh interviews New Harmony, IN based textile artist Laura Foster Nicholson, who recently received the Dehaan Artist of Distinction Award. Her exhibit “Scenes from the Carbon Border” runs February 4-April 18 at Tube Factory artspace.

(This is an archived episode from 2/17/2022)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 interviews John Green and Sarah Urist Green — married collaborators based in Indianapolis who both released books during the pandemic.Sarah’s book, You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation, is connected to her work on The Art Assignment show on PBS Digital. This popular series started with artists sharing assignments for others to try and moved into shows about art history and travel. Sarah’s book came out from Penguin in 2020.  More at www.theartassignment.comJohn’s latest book, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, came out in 2021 — also from Penguin. It is the print version of his podcast series by the same name. John is known for his novels and vlogs. More at www.johngreenbooks.com 

(This is an archived episode from 3/2/2022)Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — 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. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.

(This is an archived episode from 3/4/2022)Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — 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. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.

(This is an archived episode from 3/11/2022)Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — 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. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.

(This is an archived episode from 3/31/2022)Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative — the nonprofit arts organization behind WQRT — 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. Find out more and access additional episodes at wqrt.org.

(This is an archived episode from 4/26/2022)The Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory gathering April 10-13 in New Harmony, a town twice the site of utopian experiments. Conversations — led by more than 20 authors, artists, designers, and philosophers from around the world — will look at the role of utopian thinking: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Attendees are welcome to join any parts of the free symposium in person, online, or both. Organized by Big Car Collaborative and the University of Southern Indiana. And made possible by Indiana Humanities, the Efroymson Family Fund, and New America.

(This is an archived episode from 4/26/2022)The Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory gathering April 10-13 in New Harmony, a town twice the site of utopian experiments. Conversations — led by more than 20 authors, artists, designers, and philosophers from around the world — will look at the role of utopian thinking: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Attendees are welcome to join any parts of the free symposium in person, online, or both. Organized by Big Car Collaborative and the University of Southern Indiana. And made possible by Indiana Humanities, the Efroymson Family Fund, and New America.

(This is an archived episode from 4/26/2022)The Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory gathering April 10-13 in New Harmony, a town twice the site of utopian experiments. Conversations — led by more than 20 authors, artists, designers, and philosophers from around the world — will look at the role of utopian thinking: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Attendees are welcome to join any parts of the free symposium in person, online, or both. Organized by Big Car Collaborative and the University of Southern Indiana. And made possible by Indiana Humanities, the Efroymson Family Fund, and New America.

(This is an archived episode from 4/27/2022)The Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory gathering April 10-13 in New Harmony, a town twice the site of utopian experiments. Conversations — led by more than 20 authors, artists, designers, and philosophers from around the world — will look at the role of utopian thinking: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Attendees are welcome to join any parts of the free symposium in person, online, or both. Organized by Big Car Collaborative and the University of Southern Indiana. And made possible by Indiana Humanities, the Efroymson Family Fund, and New America.

(This is an archived episode from 7/12/2022)This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility—one of the year’s big books by the author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel. It’s a time-tripping science fiction mystery with some interesting things to say about the pandemic, moon colonies, book tours in the 23rd century, and, like most good novels, the human condition. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show only on 99.1 WQRT

(This is an archived episode from 8/31/2022)Radio Free Book Club will be tackling one of this summer’s biggest books: The Candy House, Jennifer Egan’s so-called sibling novel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show only on 99.1 WQRT

(This is an archived episode from 8/31/2022)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 Shauta Marsh sits down with LaShawnda Crowe Storm to discuss her latest exhibition Sister Song: The Requiem at the Tube Factory Artspace.

(This is an archived episode from 8/31/2022)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 Shauta Marsh sits down with Amy Klingman and Ish Muhammad NievesAmy Kligman has been the Executive Artistic Director at Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City.Ish Muhammad is a self-taught artist residing in Northwest Indiana.. He is a founding member of Crazy Indiana Style Artists (CISA). CISA is recognized as Indiana’s first Latino Art Collective.

(This is an archived episode from 8/31/2022)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 Mary Goodwin sits down with Eli Cravens to discuss his latest residency with Aurora + Herron.Eli Craven (elicraven.com) is an artist based in Lafayette, Indiana. He received a BFA from Boise State University in 2011 and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016. Craven’s research resides in the critical investigation of the image and its relationship to ideologies of sexuality, desire, and death. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Purdue University.

(This is an archived episode from 8/31/2022)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 writers Susan Neville and Jim Walker talk with poet Roger Mitchell about his deep interest in preserving the legacy of Indiana-born poet Jean Garrigue. Mitchell, now retired from Indiana University, ran the school’s MFA program. He lives in upstate New York and now spends much of his time researching and writing an in-depth exploration of Garrige’s life and work. Mitchell, the author of numerous books of poetry and a work of nonfiction himself, hopes to see this project soon become a published biography of Garrigue — someone he never met before her death in 1972.Audio production for this episode, including music, by Jim Walker. Poetry read by Shauta Marsh.

(This is an archived episode from 8/31/2022)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 Shauta Marsh sits down with Chris Smith and Greg Rose of 1000 Words.

(This is an archived episode from 8/31/2022)A special presentation from A public reading and discussion at The Tube Factory Artspace featuring Ta'ara Winfrey Harrisand her book "Dear Black Girl" Letters from Your Sisters About Stepping into your Power.Tamara Winfrey-Harris is a writer who specializes in the ever-evolving space where current events, politics and pop culture intersect with race and gender. She says, “I want to tell the stories of Black women and girls, and deliver the truth to all those folks who got us twisted—tangled up in racist and sexist lies. I want my writing to advocate for my sisters. We are better than alright. We are amazing.”

(This is an archived episode from 9/12/2022)Join the Radio Free Book Club team—novelist Dan Barden, award-winning author Susan Neville, smart reader and NFL official Steve Woods, and host Ken Honeywell for a no-holds-barred discussion of the provocative novel - Julia May Jonas' VladimirRadio 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!

(This is an archived episode from 9/15/2022)This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togetherness, and fun to the heart of our city. We paid all the poets for creating this new work that you can also read and hear at ⁠circlespark.org⁠.