Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Lisa Borders

@lisaborders.bsky.social

4.3K followers 880 following 280 posts

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/

www.lisaborders.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · Mar 17

Thrilled to share the cover of my third novel, LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO, coming in October from @regalhouse.bsky.social. I can’t wait for you to visit Studio 54 in its heyday and meet my outrageous narrator, Lynda Boyle, as she breaks hearts — and commits a crime or two. Preorder: www.lisaborders.com

Book cover, in multicolored orange, red and pink hues with disco balls in the background and a young woman with large dark sunglasses and a cigarette dangling out of her mouth. Title LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO is in a big splashy font.

2 22

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 10h

My book launch last night was a beautiful dream. Could not have been more wonderful! Thanks to @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social and so many others for helping to bring LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO into the world!

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you my lovely friend @nassefi.bsky.social!

Nassim Assefi @nassefi.bsky.social · 1d

So proud of my friend @lisaborders.bsky.social

Regal House Publishing @regalhouse.bsky.social · 1d

We're so excited to celebrate the release today of Lisa Borders' LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO, a "deliciously deranged cri de coeur." Happy #bookbirthday, Lisa! regal-housepublishing.mybigcommerce.com/last-night-a...

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 1d

Yay Burlington! I really hope other municipalities follow suit.

Greater Assabet Indivisible Network (GAIN) @gain-indivisible.bsky.social · 1d

This is real actual strategic resistance, making it harder for this regime to execute its illegal and immoral actions.

This is what democracy looks like.

This is the way. It's time for all 50 states to follow it www.burlington.buzz/local-govern...

Burlington Votes Yes on Multifamily Housing and ICE Resolution, No on Conservation Bylaw Changes

New development will take 3 or more years to open and will replace two current 1970s office buildings

www.burlington.buzz

1 1

Reposted by Lisa Borders

Regal House Publishing @regalhouse.bsky.social · 1d

4 7

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 2d

Pete Hegseth … went to college?

1 16

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 5d

Brooklyn, LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO is coming at you on Oct 21! The event is free but Eventbrite signups are appreciated. #booksky www.eventbrite.com/e/lisa-borde...

Lisa Borders launches "Last Night at the Disco," with Patricia Park

"Outrageously funny, deliciously sexy, and sneakily moving." —Yael Goldstein-Love

www.eventbrite.com

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for including it, @julievickwriter.bsky.social. Julie’s substack is a must-read for humor writers!

Julie Vick @julievickwriter.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to @lisaborders.bsky.social for doing a funny guest rec for my most recent newsletter.

Lisa’s book Last Night at the Disco is out next week 🤩

julievick.substack.com/p/september-...

1 3

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 8d

LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO has the power to bend space and time! See what happened when I unboxed my books. #booksky #unboxingvideo

Reposted by Lisa Borders

Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 13d

Remember that we outnumber them

They are desperately ramping things up!

We need to stick together

Courage!

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 13d

Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse

They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it

1 15 72

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 15d

Transport yourself out of 2025! Preorder at your favorite bookstore. #booksky #lastnightatthedisco

1 5

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 16d

Fake news! It’s heroin and cocaine!

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 17d

Me too, but you can’t have Quisp without Quake!

1 1

Reposted by Lisa Borders

Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 21d

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

170 2.1K 7.3K

Reposted by Lisa Borders

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21d

I’m sure all the standup comedians who have been ranting about censorship the last few years are going to take to the streets any minute now.

27 360 2.1K

Reposted by Lisa Borders

Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 22d

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.

Speaks for itself.

190 1.9K 5.8K

Reposted by Lisa Borders

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22d

Written as an email to former Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, frequent McSweeney's contributor @lisaborders.bsky.social 's "Last Night at the Disco" has been praised as “hilarious” by Publishers Weekly. Today, we’re thrilled to share an excerpt from the book.

An Excerpt from Lisa Borders’s New Novel, Last Night at the Disco

- - -In 1977, a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54 discovers two musicians who become among the most influ...

buff.ly

4 16

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 22d

LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO drops three weeks from today, and I’m thrilled to share this excerpt via the good folks at @mcsweeneys.net.

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

An Excerpt from Lisa Borders’s New Novel, Last Night at the Disco

- - -In 1977, a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54 discovers two musicians who become among the most influ...

www.mcsweeneys.net

1 5

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 24d

Button your shirt, Baby Billy! #Emmys

Reposted by Lisa Borders

Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 28d

Jokes aside this nation is exhausting.

Mind your mental health and surround yourself with folk who authenticity return your love.

💕

9 47 260

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · Sep 8

Grateful for this terrific review of LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO! 💃 🪩❤️

Beth Castrodale @bethcastrodale.bsky.social · Sep 8

I thoroughly enjoyed LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO, a thrill trip of a novel helmed by the endlessly scheming clubber/poet Lynda Boyle. Look out for the book in October, and check out my review:
smallpresspicks.com/last-night-a....
#bookreview #novels @lisaborders.bsky.social @regalhouse.bsky.social

Last Night at the Disco - Small Press Picks

I’ve long been a fan of escapist entertainment, never more so than in these deeply troubling times. So I was delighted to learn about–and read–Last Night at the Disco, a rollicking and hilarious thril...

smallpresspicks.com

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you so much, Beth! 💃🪩❤️

1 1

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · Sep 1

So happy to see this! I wish I could have been there.

Chip Saltsman @chipsaltsman.bsky.social · Sep 1

The crowd gathering for Labor Day “Workers over Billionaires” march at the Boston Common.

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · Sep 1

Don’t get me wrong, I like this version of Gavin Newsom, but wasn’t he sidling up to right wing bros a few months ago?

4 7

Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to share book events this fall for Last Night at the Disco, starting with my launch at @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social on October 7. I hope to see you on the road! #booksky

List of tour dates for Last Night at the Disco, a novel by Lisa Borders

Reposted by Lisa Borders

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 14

We do actually need to pay attention to the distraction when death and punishment is the way they’re distracting.

2 110 470