Summer Blockbusters! (kind of)

HopLit

Welcome to HopLit, a beery book podcast for everyone!

HopLit hosts David & Emily celebrate summer blockbusters and the relationships between movies and books, movies and beer, and books and beer. In this episode, David & Emily celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws and share their own film-inspired book picks in a Blockbuster Bookstack 6-pack. In addition, the hosts of HopLit review recent readings and their TBR, detail David’s trip to Crafted For Action, discuss the upcoming Columbus Book Festival, and get excited over anticipated new book releases and beer events.

Emily's picks
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
Black Panther by various (Penguin Classics Edition - 2022)
Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano (2019)

David's picks
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1963)
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser (2001)

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.