An Evening with Author Lisa Borders! In Conversation with Whitney Scharer

Name: An Evening with Author Lisa Borders! In Conversation with Whitney Scharer
Start: 2025-12-05T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 12 Spruce St., Acton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01720

Schedule

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

12 Spruce St., Acton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01720 | Acton, MA

Join us as we welcome author Lisa Borders to the store! Lisa will be discussing her latest novel Last Night at the Disco, an outrageous trip back to the 1970s, as seen through the eyes of a New Jersey junior high school teacher, Lynda Boyle, who spends her weekends at Studio 54. Four decades later, Lynda believes she hasn’t been given proper credit for discovering two of the most influential musicians of the 1980s – one a student in her class, the other an ex whose career she derailed. In telling her story, Lynda hopes to secure what she believes is her rightful place in rock and roll history. If she settles a few other scores along the way, that’s just a bonus.
Lisa will be joined in conversation by author Whitney Scharer.
About Lisa Borders
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 The Rumpus, Cognoscenti, Post Road and other journals. She lives in Central Massachusetts with her partner and two rescue cats.
About Whitney Scharer
Whitney Scharer earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, and her short fiction has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, and other journals. She's received an Emerging Artist Award in Literature from the St. Botolph Club Foundation, a Somerville Arts Council Artists grant, and been awarded a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. The Age of Light is her first novel.