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/
Pinned
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
Reposted by Lisa Borders
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
Reposted by Lisa Borders
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.
Reposted by Lisa Borders
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.
Reposted by Lisa Borders
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 ...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Let me answer any questions about the math pre-emptively: I wrote this in 2017!
Reposted by Lisa Borders
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
Reposted by Lisa Borders
Reposted by Lisa Borders
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.
Reposted by Lisa Borders
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
open.substack.com
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...
Reposted by Lisa Borders
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
www.youtube.com
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
podcasts.apple.com
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...
I had a blast creating a playlist for each of the main characters in LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO. All on Spotify. Enjoy!
"Fiction writers always reveal themselves in their work, whether they mean to or not. I’m obsessed with music, and it’s the main way I have shown my hand in all three of my novels..."
@lisaborders.bsky.social shared 3(!) playlists for Last Night at the Disco largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/08/l...
@lisaborders.bsky.social shared 3(!) playlists for Last Night at the Disco largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/08/l...
October 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I had a blast creating a playlist for each of the main characters in LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO. All on Spotify. Enjoy!
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!
October 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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!
Thank you my lovely friend @nassefi.bsky.social!
So proud of my friend @lisaborders.bsky.social
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...
October 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Thank you my lovely friend @nassefi.bsky.social!
Yay Burlington! I really hope other municipalities follow suit.
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...
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
October 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Yay Burlington! I really hope other municipalities follow suit.
Reposted by Lisa Borders
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...
October 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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...
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
October 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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...