Alex Lewis
@lewisalex10.bsky.social
Writes the newsletter “Feels Like Home.” Tells local stories at (614) Magazine & Columbus Underground. Read my newsletter: www.feelslikehome.site
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Alex Lewis
@lewisalex10.bsky.social
· Nov 15
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Writing about things I love & the people and moments that have shaped me. Click to read Feels Like Home, by Alex Lewis, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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I’m an essayist and music & culture journalist based in Columbus, Ohio. I publish Feels Like Home, a newsletter about things I love & the people and moments that have shaped me:
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I ❤️the idea of an Album Club that is similar to a Book Club. @thomascostello.bsky.social chatted with @lewisalex10.bsky.social and Zachariah Thompson (The Scatter Joy Project) about the kickoff event where @boniverwi.bsky.social 'SABLE, fABLE' is the featured album.
@thomascostello.bsky.social gets the low down on 'The Album Club,' a new music listening experience and conversation in Columbus
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The Album Club inspires community and connection in Columbus - Columbus Calling
Monday, the Album Club debuts at The Scatter Joy Project to discuss music but also strengthen community at mental health-focused third space.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I ❤️the idea of an Album Club that is similar to a Book Club. @thomascostello.bsky.social chatted with @lewisalex10.bsky.social and Zachariah Thompson (The Scatter Joy Project) about the kickoff event where @boniverwi.bsky.social 'SABLE, fABLE' is the featured album.
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@thomascostello.bsky.social gets the low down on 'The Album Club,' a new music listening experience and conversation in Columbus
columbuscalling.com/the-album-cl...
columbuscalling.com/the-album-cl...
The Album Club inspires community and connection in Columbus - Columbus Calling
Monday, the Album Club debuts at The Scatter Joy Project to discuss music but also strengthen community at mental health-focused third space.
columbuscalling.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
@thomascostello.bsky.social gets the low down on 'The Album Club,' a new music listening experience and conversation in Columbus
columbuscalling.com/the-album-cl...
columbuscalling.com/the-album-cl...
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the wonderful @lewisalex10.bsky.social wrote compellingly and personally about the nuggets, with nikola jokic as our modern day atlas, and lessons from his 90-year-old grandmother
Exits: The one who holds the sky
Writer Alex Lewis on Nikola Jokic as Atlas, the trick (and fortitude) of time, and Denver on the mend.
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August 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
the wonderful @lewisalex10.bsky.social wrote compellingly and personally about the nuggets, with nikola jokic as our modern day atlas, and lessons from his 90-year-old grandmother
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Your links for the weekend:
weekend links
t-boy wrestling kiss cams, CJ Jackson's new hairdo, & the f*ggot olympics
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January 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Your links for the weekend:
I dreamed of being on ESPN as a kid. I wanted to be like Stuart Scott n dem. I thought that dream was over. So, seeing an essay I wrote not only on the ESPN app but the top story on the app is surreal to say the least.
January 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I dreamed of being on ESPN as a kid. I wanted to be like Stuart Scott n dem. I thought that dream was over. So, seeing an essay I wrote not only on the ESPN app but the top story on the app is surreal to say the least.
For my Andscape debut, I wrote about nine-time All Star Russell Westbrook teaming up with Nikola Jokic to lead the Denver Nuggets to joy.
Russell Westbrook has found a gentle landing in his rollercoaster career
The NBA is nothing if not chaotic. I often liken it to reality television — where drama reigns supreme, and I can’t help but be drawn to its most outlandish pla…
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January 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For my Andscape debut, I wrote about nine-time All Star Russell Westbrook teaming up with Nikola Jokic to lead the Denver Nuggets to joy.
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I wanna give @lewisalex10.bsky.social his flowers bc I’ve known him from the other app for a while now and he’s admittedly the first Ohioan I ever knew lol and a damn good writer (while the world’s most deserving Nuggets fan) who just had his work push notified from the ESPN app
lfg king!
lfg king!
January 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I wanna give @lewisalex10.bsky.social his flowers bc I’ve known him from the other app for a while now and he’s admittedly the first Ohioan I ever knew lol and a damn good writer (while the world’s most deserving Nuggets fan) who just had his work push notified from the ESPN app
lfg king!
lfg king!
We don’t just deserve more; we are more.
We hurt.
We love.
We cry.
We dance.
We are more wide-ranging than the restrictions we’ve been handed.
We hurt.
We love.
We cry.
We dance.
We are more wide-ranging than the restrictions we’ve been handed.
January 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
We don’t just deserve more; we are more.
We hurt.
We love.
We cry.
We dance.
We are more wide-ranging than the restrictions we’ve been handed.
We hurt.
We love.
We cry.
We dance.
We are more wide-ranging than the restrictions we’ve been handed.
For my first newsletter essay of 2025, I wrote about Kacey Musgraves’ Deeper Well, turning 30, and learning to get over myself. It includes an audio voiceover, so feel free to read or listen along. Hope you enjoy & share it with someone special.
Saturn is Somewhere
On Kacey Musgraves, Turning 30 & Getting Over Myself
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January 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
For my first newsletter essay of 2025, I wrote about Kacey Musgraves’ Deeper Well, turning 30, and learning to get over myself. It includes an audio voiceover, so feel free to read or listen along. Hope you enjoy & share it with someone special.
I need space in my life to make art I’m proud of
January 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I need space in my life to make art I’m proud of
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ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 3rd!
January 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 3rd!
I’m proud of me. I hope you’re proud of you.
December 30, 2024 at 3:22 PM
I’m proud of me. I hope you’re proud of you.
Brittany Howard on winning her first Grammy:
“I felt this immense sense that my life was never going to be the same again. And I appreciated that, and it gave me the inspiration to keep making music.”
“I felt this immense sense that my life was never going to be the same again. And I appreciated that, and it gave me the inspiration to keep making music.”
Doechii and Brittany Howard: 'It's a Great Time for Women' in Music
Doechii and Brittany Howard met up for a conversation at the Apollo Theater for Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians series
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December 27, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Brittany Howard on winning her first Grammy:
“I felt this immense sense that my life was never going to be the same again. And I appreciated that, and it gave me the inspiration to keep making music.”
“I felt this immense sense that my life was never going to be the same again. And I appreciated that, and it gave me the inspiration to keep making music.”
“Drake’s career serves as a reminder that true artistry requires more than technical skill and commercial success; it demands vulnerability, evolution, and a willingness to confront uncomfortable truths.”
Drake Could’ve Been Phonte
In the aftermath of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef, all I could think of was, “What went wrong” or “What could’ve he [Drake] done to…
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December 25, 2024 at 3:12 PM
“Drake’s career serves as a reminder that true artistry requires more than technical skill and commercial success; it demands vulnerability, evolution, and a willingness to confront uncomfortable truths.”
“Once upon a time, they were just boys who really needed someone to hold their hands, but in order to be tricked into believing they were impenetrable, they were damned to fists instead.”
— Robert Jones Jr.
— Robert Jones Jr.
Jerrod
On Jerrod Carmichael. And us.
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December 25, 2024 at 2:33 PM
“Once upon a time, they were just boys who really needed someone to hold their hands, but in order to be tricked into believing they were impenetrable, they were damned to fists instead.”
— Robert Jones Jr.
— Robert Jones Jr.
“… sharing what we love is dangerous, it is vulnerable, it is like baring your neck, or your belly, and it reveals that, in some ways, we are all commonly tender.”
— Ross Gay
— Ross Gay
December 23, 2024 at 2:01 PM
“… sharing what we love is dangerous, it is vulnerable, it is like baring your neck, or your belly, and it reveals that, in some ways, we are all commonly tender.”
— Ross Gay
— Ross Gay
Online interactions can lead to deeper offline relationships
December 21, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Online interactions can lead to deeper offline relationships
My grandma loves me, I’m never going to fail
December 20, 2024 at 8:49 PM
My grandma loves me, I’m never going to fail
Feels Like Home turns two today. When I started this newsletter on a whim at the end of 2022, I had no idea I’d be sitting here today publishing my words to more than 1,300 subscribers.
Two Years of Feels Like Home
Celebrating my newsletter's second anniversary
www.feelslikehome.site
December 19, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Feels Like Home turns two today. When I started this newsletter on a whim at the end of 2022, I had no idea I’d be sitting here today publishing my words to more than 1,300 subscribers.
I know myself enough to know what my best work requires.
December 17, 2024 at 1:36 PM
I know myself enough to know what my best work requires.
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I don’t feel the constant need to compare art or artists’ either…
I’m an “and” instead of “or” guy when it comes to that. I do agree that art such as albums, films, or books often boils down to preference and bias more than overall quality and execution.
Everything isn’t for EVERYONE.
I’m an “and” instead of “or” guy when it comes to that. I do agree that art such as albums, films, or books often boils down to preference and bias more than overall quality and execution.
Everything isn’t for EVERYONE.
December 15, 2024 at 4:59 PM
I don’t feel the constant need to compare art or artists’ either…
I’m an “and” instead of “or” guy when it comes to that. I do agree that art such as albums, films, or books often boils down to preference and bias more than overall quality and execution.
Everything isn’t for EVERYONE.
I’m an “and” instead of “or” guy when it comes to that. I do agree that art such as albums, films, or books often boils down to preference and bias more than overall quality and execution.
Everything isn’t for EVERYONE.
“The nature of this art is lonely: the writer puts forth a vision and hopes some other person will carry it forward; yet writers, like all people, need other humans.”
— Nikki Giovanni
— Nikki Giovanni
December 14, 2024 at 3:30 PM
“The nature of this art is lonely: the writer puts forth a vision and hopes some other person will carry it forward; yet writers, like all people, need other humans.”
— Nikki Giovanni
— Nikki Giovanni
I write so that we might see ourselves as part of a collective
December 13, 2024 at 5:11 PM
I write so that we might see ourselves as part of a collective
I know where I can be, but I’m going to do it on my time in my way.
December 12, 2024 at 12:12 PM
I know where I can be, but I’m going to do it on my time in my way.