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Lisa Borders is the author of the novels The Fifty-First State and Cloud Cuckoo Land. Her third novel, Last Night at the Disco, will be published in 2025. Read more of her humor and other writing at lisaborders.com.

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    Meditations on Hell
    by Lisa Borders
  • January 15, 2025
    Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty
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  • November 13, 2024
    Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now’s the Time to Put Aside Our Differences
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  • June 5, 2024
    We Are the Spiders of This House
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  • February 13, 2024
    The 25th Annual Conference of Women Mentioned in Rock Lyrics
    by Lisa Borders
  • January 25, 2023
    Food from The Great British Bake Off or Song by The Cure?
    by Lisa Borders
  • November 11, 2022
    It’s Me, Your Thin Friend and Oh My God, I Feel So Fat
    by Lisa Borders
  • July 13, 2022
    “Your (Aging) Body Is a Wonderland”
    by Lisa Borders
  • March 9, 2022
    Come Work at Our Nonprofit Where We Treat Employees Like Family—a Toxic and Dysfunctional Family
    by Lisa Borders
  • June 2, 2021
    Coming in 2040: No Future, the First Punk Rock Nursing Home
    by Lisa Borders
  • April 21, 2021
    House Hunting in 2021 Bingo
    by Lisa Borders
  • March 3, 2021
    It’s Me, Your Former Junior High School Bully, and I’m Sorry to Inform You That Karma Hasn’t Caught Up With Me Yet
    by Lisa Borders
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