Welcome to HopLit, a beery book podcast for everyone!

In this episode, David & Emily sit down for the first episode of HopLit, a beery book conversation with zero snobbery. In this first episode, David & Emily kick off June by discussing LGBTQIA+ authors, characters, and narratives, as well as different Pride events happening at bookstores and breweries. In addition, they catch up on recent readings and their TBR stacks, with a nod to a fun, literary-themed beer.

Our Bookstack 6-pack for this episode:

Emily's picks
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Pahlaniuk (1999)
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones (2019)
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (2006)

David's picks
Hide by Matthew Griffin (2016)
oh, you thought this was a date?! apocalypse poems by C. Russell Price (2022)
The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado (2020)

Emily's Beer Canon Book Club next meets on Tuesday, June 24 at 7:00 p.m. EST at Campfire Brewing in Westerville, Ohio. The Drunken Scholars will be discussing Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey to celebrate Pride Month!

HopLit is a beery book podcast for everyone, with no snobbery and no pretense. We don't believe in guilty pleasures of either the liquid or literary varieties. Whatever you're reading and however you're reading it, and whatever you're drinking or if you're not drinking at all, this podcast is for you.

HopLit is hosted by David Nilsen & Emily Swank.

David Nilsen is a full-time beer writer and educator living near Dayton, Ohio. He's an Advanced Cicerone© and a member of the North American Guild of Beer Writers and the British Guild of Beer Writers. He is a former public librarian and book critic. You can find him online at davidnilsenbeer.com and davidnilsenwriter.com and on Instagram and Bluesky @davidnilsenbeer.

Emily Swank is an English teacher and the creator behind the Instagram account @thebeercanon. The Beer Canon works to pair books with craft beer, and has its own monthly brewery hopping book club. She's hosted bookish events with Columbus Brewing Company and Seventh Son Brewing, and is based in Columbus, Ohio.