Lisa Borders | Points in Case

Lisa Borders Hudson, MA

Lisa Borders is the author of the novels The Fifty-First State and Cloud Cuckoo Land. Her third novel, Last Night at the Disco, is a dark comedy and will be published in October 2025.

Comedy Writing

The Real Seagulls of New Jersey, Season 9

Laugh and caw with your favorite Real Seagulls as they whisk newcomer Jenny to Miami for a caliente seawater bender.

by Lisa Borders
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June 30, 2023

The 25th Annual Conference of Women Mentioned in Rock Lyrics

by Lisa Borders | February 13, 2024 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Cooking Tips from My Mom in the 1970s

by Lisa Borders | October 15, 2023 | Other Publication

I’m A Woman Who Grew Up in New Jersey, and Rumors About Real, Yellowjackets-Style Cannibal Cults Are Absolutely Untrue

by Lisa Borders | March 24, 2023 | Greener Pastures

Food From the Great British Bake Off or Song by the Cure?

by Lisa Borders | January 25, 2023 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency

It’s Me, Your Thin Friend and Oh My God, I Feel So Fat

by Lisa Borders | November 11, 2022 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Tabloid Headlines if We Talked About Men the Way We Talk About Women

by Lisa Borders | September 30, 2022 | The Belladonna

Your (Aging) Body Is a Wonderland

by Lisa Borders | July 13, 2022 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Things I, An American Woman, Did Last Weekend for No Particular Reason at All

by Lisa Borders | June 30, 2022 | The Belladonna

Reasons to Shave Your Legs in Winter

by Lisa Borders | March 14, 2022 | The Belladonna

Come Work At Our Nonprofit Where We Treat Employees Like Family – A Toxic and Dysfunctional Family

by Lisa Borders | March 9, 2022 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Virus Seeking Host: The Omicron Variant Sets Up an OkCupid Profile

by Lisa Borders | December 12, 2021 | The Belladonna

Coming in 2040: No Future, the First Punk Rock Nursing Home

by Lisa Borders | June 2, 2021 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Things Men on the Street Have Murmured About My Breasts or R.E.M. Songs?

by Lisa Borders | April 27, 2021 | The Belladonna

House Hunting in 2021 Bingo

by Lisa Borders | April 21, 2021 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency

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 | March 3, 2021 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Unfollow, Unfriend or Block: A Pandemic Guide

by Lisa Borders | April 8, 2020 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency

I’m the Woman from A-ha’s “Take on Me” Video, and Life with a Comic Book Character Has Been No Fairy Tale

by Lisa Borders | November 1, 2019 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Responses to the Question, “Why Didn’t You Ever Have Kids?”

by Lisa Borders | April 3, 2019 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Signs That You Are A Gen-Xer Going Through Menopause

by Lisa Borders | November 15, 2017 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency