February 14, 2025
It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 7: Lewis DeSimone!
Lewis DeSimone joins us for the first time with his book: Exit Wounds. We discuss middle age, the disappearance of gay touchstones in culture, and jury duty as a lens for seeing life.
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Lewis DeSimone has supported his writing habit through a long career in marketing and academic publishing. His debut novel, Chemistry, investigated the impact of mental illness on a gay couple. In subsequent works, The Heart’s History and Channeling Morgan, he tackled subjects as diverse as AIDS, drag, cults, and the celebrity closet. At the core of all of his work is the hard and necessary struggle for self-knowledge and acceptance. As his latest novel, Exit Wounds, demonstrates, that effort doesn’t end at some magical point of “maturity,” particularly in turbulent periods like the present, when cultural shifts happen so quickly we don’t have time to fully grasp what we’re losing in the process.
A frequent panelist at the Saints and Sinners Literary Conference, Lewis has published fiction and nonfiction in the Advocate, Christopher Street, Chelsea Station, and a range of other journals and literary anthologies.
Lewis grew up in Boston and earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard. He also has a master’s in creative writing from the University of California, Davis. After spending 25 years in San Francisco, he retired to Minneapolis, where he lives with his husband.
