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Lisa Borders
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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June 5, 2024We Are the Spiders of This House
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February 13, 2024The 25th Annual Conference of Women Mentioned in Rock Lyrics
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January 25, 2023Food from The Great British Bake Off or Song by The Cure?
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November 11, 2022It’s Me, Your Thin Friend and Oh My God, I Feel So Fat
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July 13, 2022“Your (Aging) Body Is a Wonderland”
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March 9, 2022Come Work at Our Nonprofit Where We Treat Employees Like Family—a Toxic and Dysfunctional Family
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June 2, 2021Coming in 2040: No Future, the First Punk Rock Nursing Home
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April 21, 2021House Hunting in 2021 Bingo
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March 3, 2021It’s Me, Your Former Junior High School Bully, and I’m Sorry to Inform You That Karma Hasn’t Caught Up With Me Yet
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April 8, 2020Unfollow, Unfriend, or Block: A Pandemic Guide
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November 1, 2019I’m the Woman From A-ha’s “Take on Me” Video, and Life With a Comic Book Character Has Been No Fairy Tale
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April 3, 2019Responses to the Question, “Why Didn’t You Ever Have Kids?”
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November 1, 2024I Will Be Away from My Desk on November 6
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October 28, 2024The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets
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August 19, 2024Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing: Atrocities 1–1,056
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