Lisa Borders
@lisaborders.bsky.social
Massachusetts-based writer, cat lover, alt rock fanatic. New novel, Last Night at the Disco, coming from Regal House in October 2025. Humor in McSweeney’s & more. I run the Novel Reactor workshops. Pro-science, anti-fascist. https://www.lisaborders.com/
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Lisa Borders
@lisaborders.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Lots of events coming up for Last Night at the Disco, including three in the next week! For more info, visit my website, lisaborders.com. #bookthreads
Thanks for the shout-out, @misdonnacolta.bsky.social! I can’t wait to read OFELIA AND NORMA, coming next fall from @regalhouse.bsky.social.
About my bilingual granddaughter and a bit about books, including wonderful new books from Alan Lau and @lisaborders.bsky.social. donnamiscolta.com/2025/11/28/l...
Life in Málaga—Bilingual baby, books, and fall
It’s a walk in the park, a stride across an empty street, as easy and pure as a toddler pushing a toy stroller. It’s my granddaughter’s unconscious switching between Spanish and English. It’s what I e...
donnamiscolta.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Thanks for the shout-out, @misdonnacolta.bsky.social! I can’t wait to read OFELIA AND NORMA, coming next fall from @regalhouse.bsky.social.
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I teamed up with @janineannett.bsky.social for this perimenopause or Thanksgiving quiz up @mcsweeneys.net
Turns out there is a surprising amount of overlap.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tha...
Turns out there is a surprising amount of overlap.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tha...
Thanksgiving or Perimenopause?
1. There’s a turkey neck situation.
2. Is it four thousand degrees in the kitchen, or is it just you?
3. You love your family, but you also wish th...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I teamed up with @janineannett.bsky.social for this perimenopause or Thanksgiving quiz up @mcsweeneys.net
Turns out there is a surprising amount of overlap.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tha...
Turns out there is a surprising amount of overlap.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tha...
Had a blast of a disco brunch at Thunder Road Books this morning. Saw friends and family and my beloved fifth grade teacher. Met new friends and readers! Profoundly grateful for the support and love I’ve felt on this whole trip. Indie bookstores and libraries are the best places in the world. ❤️
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Had a blast of a disco brunch at Thunder Road Books this morning. Saw friends and family and my beloved fifth grade teacher. Met new friends and readers! Profoundly grateful for the support and love I’ve felt on this whole trip. Indie bookstores and libraries are the best places in the world. ❤️
Giving the sequins a rest today, then two events this weekend in Philly and Spring Lake, NJ for Last Night at the Disco. Can’t stop the dance!
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Giving the sequins a rest today, then two events this weekend in Philly and Spring Lake, NJ for Last Night at the Disco. Can’t stop the dance!
South Jersey! I’ll be dressed in my disco finery at the Millville Public Library tonight as part of the NJ Authors Series, 6:30 pm. Come for the fun 70s slide show, stay for a discussion of my new novel, LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO. 🪩 💃🪩
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
South Jersey! I’ll be dressed in my disco finery at the Millville Public Library tonight as part of the NJ Authors Series, 6:30 pm. Come for the fun 70s slide show, stay for a discussion of my new novel, LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO. 🪩 💃🪩
Fabulous night with @emilyflake.bsky.social and Elly Lonon at the amazing Words bookstore in Maplewood, NJ. Next stop: Millville NJ, Thursday night!
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Fabulous night with @emilyflake.bsky.social and Elly Lonon at the amazing Words bookstore in Maplewood, NJ. Next stop: Millville NJ, Thursday night!
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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If you are a Senate Democrat and you just watched your party base crush election night and put 7 million people in the streets for No Kings and your response in this moment is to cave in on the shutdown, you should immediately resign. Just get out of the way.
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
If you are a Senate Democrat and you just watched your party base crush election night and put 7 million people in the streets for No Kings and your response in this moment is to cave in on the shutdown, you should immediately resign. Just get out of the way.
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
The glamorous life (sometimes!)😂😂😂
In my next life, I want to come back as @lisaborders.bsky.social so I can dress up for my book launches like she does for hers. See the list of all events for her new book Last Night at the Disco @ www.lisaborders.com/events/ ! #booksky
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The glamorous life (sometimes!)😂😂😂
Hitting the road with my 70s slide show and some awesome conversation partners for LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO book events in the motherland of NJ! First up: Words in Maplewood NJ this Tuesday, 11/11 at 7:30 pm, with the amazing @emilyflake.bsky.social and Elly Lonon!
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Hitting the road with my 70s slide show and some awesome conversation partners for LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO book events in the motherland of NJ! First up: Words in Maplewood NJ this Tuesday, 11/11 at 7:30 pm, with the amazing @emilyflake.bsky.social and Elly Lonon!
Let me answer any questions about the math pre-emptively: I wrote this in 2017!
"You privately think 'the kids' are alarmingly intolerant of free speech these days, but you’d never say this aloud or online because 'the kids' are your bosses."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sig...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sig...
Signs That You Are a Gen-Xer Going Through Menopause
1. You sweat those newly-applied purple streaks right out of your hair. 2. You use the word “fuck” more now, even more than you used it in ...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Let me answer any questions about the math pre-emptively: I wrote this in 2017!
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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Books about women who are trapped between two worlds, even if the traps are of their own making. (@lisaborders.bsky.social)
7 Novels About Women Leading Double Lives - Electric Literature
These women reinvent themselves, hide their true identities, and refuse to be pigeonholed
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Books about women who are trapped between two worlds, even if the traps are of their own making. (@lisaborders.bsky.social)
This Monday night at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social. Cone join us!
October 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This Monday night at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social. Cone join us!
Lots of events coming up for Last Night at the Disco, including three in the next week! For more info, visit my website, lisaborders.com. #bookthreads
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Lots of events coming up for Last Night at the Disco, including three in the next week! For more info, visit my website, lisaborders.com. #bookthreads
Had a wonderful event last night at Lofty Pigeon Books for my novel LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO! So much fun hanging with my NYC pals.
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Had a wonderful event last night at Lofty Pigeon Books for my novel LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO! So much fun hanging with my NYC pals.
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Need a smartly funny book to get you through these cantankerous times? Check out LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO @lisaborders.bsky.social If you want to know how she handled her wildly unreliable narrator, take a listen #writingcommunity #podcast #unreliablenarrator 7amnovelist.substack.com/p/lisa-borde...
Lisa Borders: Voice, Likability, and the Onerous Unreliable Narrator
Her latest, LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO, is out now
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October 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Need a smartly funny book to get you through these cantankerous times? Check out LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO @lisaborders.bsky.social If you want to know how she handled her wildly unreliable narrator, take a listen #writingcommunity #podcast #unreliablenarrator 7amnovelist.substack.com/p/lisa-borde...
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All these people turning out for No Kings make me proud to be an American.
Protesters Denouncing Trump Unite Across the Country
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
All these people turning out for No Kings make me proud to be an American.
It was so much fun chatting about LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO with my longtime friend @jennablum.bsky.social for A Mighty Blaze. We’ve known each other for close to 25 years! Or as Jenna put it, since we were 12. www.youtube.com/live/iyPTLNZ...
Jenna Blum interviews Lisa Borders!
YouTube video by A Mighty Blaze
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October 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It was so much fun chatting about LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO with my longtime friend @jennablum.bsky.social for A Mighty Blaze. We’ve known each other for close to 25 years! Or as Jenna put it, since we were 12. www.youtube.com/live/iyPTLNZ...
It’s still hard to believe the wonderful Esmond Harmsworth is gone, but this event will be a balm (and you’ll hear some great writing). Join us!
On November 20th I'll join Sarah Smith, @lisaborders.bsky.social, @todd-milo.bsky.social, @michellehooverauth.bsky.social, Emily Franklin, and others for a memorial reading in honor of Esmond Harmsworth at @portersqbooks.bsky.social.
You can RSVP here: portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...
You can RSVP here: portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...
Esmond Harmsworth Memorial Reading
portersquarebooks.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It’s still hard to believe the wonderful Esmond Harmsworth is gone, but this event will be a balm (and you’ll hear some great writing). Join us!
Lovely mention of LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO on @biblioracle.bsky.social’s Substack today! open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...
Books You Should Know About That I Haven't Been Able to Review
A public service, or at least I'd like to think so.
open.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Lovely mention of LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO on @biblioracle.bsky.social’s Substack today! open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...
I recently had a fascinating conversation with @jessejacksondfw.bsky.social, host of the Bruce Springsteen fan podcast Set Lusting Bruce. We talked about LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO, the music scene in late 1970s New York, and of course, Bruuuuce! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Disco, Unreliable Narrators and Lisa Borders
Podcast Episode · Set Lusting Bruce: The Bruce Springsteen Fan Podcast · 10/07/2025 · 1h 13m
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October 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I recently had a fascinating conversation with @jessejacksondfw.bsky.social, host of the Bruce Springsteen fan podcast Set Lusting Bruce. We talked about LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO, the music scene in late 1970s New York, and of course, Bruuuuce! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...