The History of Literature: guest pitching info, reach and format

Should you pitch it?

Guest activity

Often has guests

90% of recent episode titles look like interviews

Episode length

70 min

Median of recent episodes. That is the commitment you would be asking for.

Publishing

Weekly+

782 episodes · last 2026-08-31

Language

English

The feed says "en" without a region, so the country is unknown.

Where it's from

Not established

No .uk domain and no region in the feed language. Apple reports the storefront, not the show, so we do not guess.

Reach

94

Percentile among shows you could realistically get on. Not a download count.

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Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

What the show says about itself

Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. Episodes are not in chronological order and you don't need to start at the beginning - feel free to jump in wherever you like! Find out more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature. Support the show by visiting patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. Contact the show at historyofliteraturepodcast@gmail.com.

Recent episodes

Straight from the feed. The quickest way to judge whether your angle fits.

827 American Literature's War on Crime (with Theodore Martin) | W.E.B. DuBois Sits with Shakespeare
826 The Essayist's Essayist - Phillip Lopate on the Pleasures of Reading Washington Irving and Other "Minor Writers" | Notes from the Histor
825 Henry James's Ghosts (with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm) | My Last Book with David Womersley
824 Why Did Mary Shelley Try to Erase Her? The Claire Clairmont Story (with Emily Franklin) | My Last Book with Mathelinda Nabugodi
823 Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and Shakespeare in a Divided America (with James Shapiro)
822 Wild Thoreau (with Lydia Willsky-Ciollo) | My Last Book with Douglas Clark

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