In 1977, a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54 discovers two musicians who become among the most influential artists of the 1980s – and decades later, having burned bridges with them both, tells her story in hopes of securing her rightful place in rock ‘n’ roll history.
“Last Night at the Disco is a comic gem, told from the perspective of a delusional narcissist with a Jersey-sized chip on her shoulder. Lisa Borders is a very funny writer who knows a ton about pop music and junior high school and bruised egos, and this is one of the most entertaining and psychologically astute novels I’ve read in quite some time.”
— Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and Tracy Flick Can’t Win
“Lynda Boyle is vain, seductive and irresistibly selfish, and she does the Garden State proud, as a comic wonder and the star of this delightful novel.”
— Paul Rudnick, author of What Is Wrong with You?
“A wild and hilarious romp of a book…”
— Whitney Scharer, author of The Age Of Light
“A deliciously deranged cri de coeur.”
— Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men
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Last Night At The Disco Book Launch
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lisa Borders is the author of the novels Cloud Cuckoo Land, chosen by Pat Conroy as the winner of River City Publishing’s Fred Bonnie Award and a Massachusetts Book Awards honoree, and The Fifty-First State. A frequent humor contributor at McSweeney’s, her essays and short fiction have appeared in Past Ten, The Rumpus, Cognoscenti, Black Warrior Review and other journals. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Somerville Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and residencies at the Millay Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Blue Mountain Center and St. Nell’s.
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