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.
“Hilarious … Readers will be hooked by this tragicomic romp.”
— Publishers Weekly
“The prose feels similar to Nabokov’s Lolita … beautifully written.”
— Library Journal
“Last Night at the Disco is a comic gem”
— Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and Tracy Flick Can’t Win
“A propulsive, funny, and genuinely insightful rock and roll novel with a disco beat.”
— Stephen McCauley, author of My Ex-Life and You Only Call When You’re in Trouble
“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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NEWS & LATEST WRITING
Publishers Weekly calls Last Night at the Disco a “hilarious novel” with a “deliciously unlikable antihero.”
August 9, 2025
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May 19, 2025
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EVENTS
Last Night at the Disco Book Launch at Newtonville Books
October 7, 2025
A Mighty Blaze Friday Frontliners Live Podcast
October 17, 2025
Lofty Pigeon Books
October 21, 2025
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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