Episode 37: Woody Lewis: My friend for nearly twenty years, author Woody Lewis and I sat down for the first time to talk about his book Three Lost Souls: Stories about race, class and loneliness and life. What came out of that: his membership in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), meeting and playing drums with Jimi Hendrix, his family’s relationship to Sally Hemings, and the struggle with writing about being black in America.
About Woody Lewis
Woody Lewis is the author of Three Lost Souls: Stories about race, class and loneliness (Gotham Lane, 2016). His work has appeared in AGNI Online, The Los Angeles Review of Books, CONSEQUENCE Magazine, The Southampton Review, and elsewhere.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, he spent most of his adult life in northern and southern California, returning to New York City in 2010. He now lives on the Connecticut shoreline, where he is at work on a memoir and a novel about Silicon Valley, as well as his forthcoming book on enterprise blockchain strategy (Gotham Lane, first quarter of 2019).
Woody holds a B.A. in music and an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University, and an M.F.A. in fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars.
