
Lisa Borders
Cognoscenti contributor
Lisa Borders is the author of two novels, "The Fifty-First State" and "Cloud Cuckoo Land." Her third novel, "Last Night at the Disco," will be published in 2025. She lives in Central Massachusetts with her partner and two rescue cats.
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I saw 'St. Elmo's Fire' with my best friend when I was 22. ‘Brats’ took me right back
Watching the “Brat Pack” actors as their younger selves swept me up in a wave of nostalgia, writes Lisa Borders. And since nostalgia and grief are cousins, that led me...

Rachel Maddow’s Trumped Up Tax Returns Scoop
Insinuating wrongdoing and going in search of the evidence to prove it wasn't a good or fair strategy against Hillary Clinton, writes Lisa Borders, and it's not one now.