Live Wire with Luke Burbank
Like late-night for radio, Live Wire is hosted by Luke Burbank (Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me) and artfully blends an eclectic mix of artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, comedians, and cultural observers.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 716
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Jon Mooallem, Jenny Nguyen, and Laura Veirs (REBROADCAST)
Writer Jon Mooallem (The New York Times Magazine) discusses his newest collection of essays Serious Face and why you shouldn't tell your friend they look like a 1940’s Spanish bullfighter; chef Jenny…
00:52:24 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
Aubrey Gordon, Jean Grae, and Rogê
Podcaster Aubrey Gordon dives deep into topics tackled on her hit show Maintenance Phase, including the monopolization of weight-loss medications; multi-disciplinary artist Jean Grae explains why she…
00:51:51 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
Lauren Fleshman, Joey Clift, and Who Is She? (REBROADCAST)
Record-breaking runner Lauren Fleshman unpacks her New York Times bestseller, Good for a Girl, a part-memoir, part-manifesto which challenges the male-built sports system; comedian and writer Joey Cl…
00:51:55 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Melissa Febos, Evan Ratliff, and Tropa Magica
Writer Melissa Febos discusses her latest book The Dry Season, wherein she explores the transformative—and at turns erotic—year she spent celibate; journalist Evan Ratliff takes us into the uncanny w…
00:52:24 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Dylan Marron, and Brittany Davis (REBROADCAST)
Writer and podcaster Dylan Marron chats about his book and podcast of the same name, Conversations with People Who Hate Me, and how a phone call can forge a deeper connection than social media; and m…
00:52:27 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
J. Kenji López-Alt, Ann Powers, and Khatumu
Celebrated chef J. Kenji López-Alt schools us on the food history of teriyaki, nachos, and broccoli cheddar soup; music critic Ann Powers unpacks her latest book Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitche…
00:52:01 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Open Book: Melissa Febos
Author Melissa Febos (The Dry Season) opens up about her first addiction: books. Then we hear why it's important to read "books of the people," which includes her favorite micro-genre of “airport rom…
00:21:30 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Ross Gay, Lane Regan, and Baroque Betty with Mood Area 52 (REBROADCAST)
Poet and essayist Ross Gay (Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude) dissects privilege, pain, and skateboarding, all themes from his newest book Inciting Joy; Michelin Star chef Lane Regan outlines their jou…
00:51:57 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Open Book: Sam Sanders
Radio host and podcaster Sam Sanders (The Sam Sanders Show, Vibe Check) chats about promoting a book through wearable merch and imagines his “dream casting” for Percival Everett’s novel James. Plus, …
00:27:55 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Gabe Henry, William Nuʻutupu Giles, and Sir Woman
Writer Gabe Henry unpacks his book Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell, which humorously explores the centuries-long evolution of the Simplified Spelling Movement, whe…
00:52:08 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Open Book: Sloane Crosley
Author Sloane Crosley (Grief Is for People) confesses the origin of her aversion to audiobooks, plus tells us which adaptations are better than their literary source material and reveals the first ad…
00:10:13 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Kathryn Schulz, Keanon Lowe, and John Craigie (REBROADCAST)
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Kathryn Schulz (The New Yorker) unpacks her memoir Lost & Found, which weaves together the loss of her father with finding the love of her life; football coach and mento…
00:52:25 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Open Book: Omar El Akkad
Journalist and author Omar El Akkad (One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This) explains why book clubs don’t work for him and how growing up in media-censored Qatar led him to read anythi…
00:22:37 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Rick Steves and The Lullaby Project
Legendary travel writer Rick Steves reflects on his days adventuring down "the hippie trail" from Istanbul to Kathmandu... and we discover why you might find him eating at McDonald's in Paris; plus T…
00:51:32 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
Open Book: Ann Powers
Music critic Ann Powers (Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell) dishes about her oddball reading journey, from staging puppet shows as a library-dwelling misfit kid to struggling to keep up with he…
00:18:17 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Saeed Jones, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and The Lowest Pair (REBROADCAST)
Poet and Kirkus Prize winner Saeed Jones unpacks his newest collection Alive at the End of the World and why Billie Holiday had a bone to pick with Maya Angelou; writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican …
00:51:05 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Open Book: Scaachi Koul
Slate writer Scaachi Koul (Sucker Punch) reveals her delinquent beginnings as a serious reader and which reading behavior she finds inexcusable. Plus, Elena unpacks “hysterical realism” as a literary…
00:20:04 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Karen Russell, Sam Miller, and David Ramirez
Award-winning author Karen Russell takes us inside her "dust bowl epic" novel The Antidote, which employs the fantastical to comment on memory, climate change, and the nation's troubling history of l…
00:52:05 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Open Book: Aubrey Gordon
Podcast star Aubrey Gordon (Maintenance Phase) discusses what a bookstore’s poetry section reveals about its true nature, the thrill of a literary “rug pull," and how sometimes the solution to “too m…
00:21:47 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Bruce Campbell, Sara Schaefer, and Emi Pop (REBROADCAST)
Actor and cult film icon Bruce Campbell delights in playing age-appropriate roles and explains why horses are such high maintenance actors; comedian Sara Schaefer tells us a tale from childhood about…
00:52:25 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
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