HopLit

HopLit hosts David & Emily get excited about spooky season and get into one of their mutually favorite genres: horror. From Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark to canonized greats in the genre like Edgar Allan Poe & Ambrose Bierce to modern favorites, including a welcome increase in short fiction by persons of color, David & Emily examine horror and gothic fiction in the short form. As a...

Welcome to HopLit , a beery book podcast for everyone! HopLit hosts David & Emily discuss all things German by celebrating Oktoberfest. From a bookstack six-pack full of German authors, characters, and settings to our This Beer is Lit segment, we cheers to a tradition over 200 years in the making. In addition to Oktoberfest, we discuss recent readings and upcoming beer and book releases, while...

Welcome to a special bonus episode of HopLit , a beery book podcast for everyone! HopLit hosts David & Emily continue celebrating September as Hispanic Heritage Month in a bonus episode featuring Hispanic voices in poetry. Each share three titles in a bonus bookstack six-pack of six different collections shedding light on the Hispanic experience in contemporary poetry.  Emily's Hispanic H...

Welcome to HopLit , a beery book podcast for everyone! HopLit hosts David & Emily celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) by featuring six incredible authors and titles in this episode’s bookstack six-pack. Beyond that, David & Emily get into some recent reading, check out upcoming book and beer events, and David teases next episode’s theme in his Beer Fact Break by dis...

Welcome to HopLit , a beery book podcast for everyone! HopLit hosts David & Emily celebrate the end of summer by sharing a Bookstack 6-pack of books featuring disastrous camping trips and summer camp vacations gone horribly wrong. In addition, the hosts of HopLit review recent readings, review the winners of the Hugo Awards, and discuss how the pandemic and other recent world events have affec...

Welcome to HopLit , a beery book podcast for everyone! HopLit hosts David & Emily celebrate the imminent start of the new school year with a Back to School Bookstack 6-pack celebrating books about or set in school settings and college campuses. From campuses both real and fictional, we are sharing stories that explore our most formative years and experiences. In addition, the hosts of HopLit r...

Welcome to HopLit , a beery book podcast for everyone! HopLit hosts David & Emily continue their pop culture July series with a Tunes & Tomes Bookstack 6-pack celebrating books about music. From memoirs to music journalism and criticism to fiction, we’re sharing our favorite books about musicians and their art. In addition, the hosts of HopLit review recent readings, recap their weekend at...

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 recen...

Welcome to HopLit , a beery book podcast for everyone! In this episode, David & Emily commemorate Juneteenth with books that look at the legacy of slavery, the end of the slavery, and what has come after it, books that show the resilience of Black authors and characters. They also offer a quick list of books for World Refugee Day. Our Bookstack 6-pack for this episode: Emily's picks A Lit...

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 rece...