Camping Gone Wrong

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 affected their reading habits.

Emily's picks
Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Dad Camp by Evan S. Porter

David's picks
The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved by Joey Comeau
The Final Girls Support Group by Grady Hendrix
This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer

We'd love to hear your picks as well, so share them with us on social media!

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.