Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

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 discussing the history of Oktoberfest. 

Emily's Hispanic Heritage Month Bookstack 6-pack picks
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez

David's Hispanic Heritage Month Bookstack 6-pack picks
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena Garcia
How to Date a Flying Mexican by Daniel Olivas
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

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.