The History of Literature Creators & Guests

Jacke Wilson is a host of The History of Literature podcast.

F. Bruce Gordon is a Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School.

Erin Sharkey is a writer, arts and abolition organizer, cultural worker, and film producer based in Minneapolis.

Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian novelist. He is best known for his 2012 book The Garden of Evening Mists.

Ian Coss is a musician and radio producer. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Ethnomusicology at Boston University and producing audio for radio, podcasts and museums.

Jack Zipes is a professor at the University of Minnesota.

Elizabeth Lauren Winkler is a journalist, book critic, and author.Winkler's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Economist. Her first book, "Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies," was published in 2023.Winkler received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her M.A. in English Literature from Stanford University.

Anna North is a writer, editor, and reporter who specializes in gender-related issues. She is currently a senior reporter at Vox Media.Prior to working for Vox, North was a contributor and member of the editorial board at the New York Times from, and headed the segment "This Week In Hate." Her work has appeared in Jezebel, Buzzfeed, and Salon.North is also the author of two novels, "America Pacifica," published in 2011, and "The Life and Death of Sophie Stark," published in 2015.

Matt Abrahams is the co-founder of Bold Echo and lecturer of strategic communication at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

Isaac Butler is a writer and theater director, most recently of The Trump Card, a meditation on the peculiar rise of Donald Trump with the solo performer Mike Daisey. Butler also wrote and directed Real Enemies, a collaboration with the composer Darcy James Argue and the video artist Peter Nigrini, which was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and named one of the top ten live events of 2015 by the New York Times. He holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Minnesota, and his writing has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, American Theatre, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications.

Noah Tetzner is the Host and Producer of Stories of the Second World War.