Lily Sullivan

2 weeks ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Lily Sullivan

Lily Sullivan is a strategist and publisher. Happy to have her with us on this later afternoon LA send. Tell us about yourself. My name is Lily Sullivan and I’m a writer based in Brooklyn. I have a newsletter called Love and Other Rugs, which compares dating men in New York to furnishing an apartment. Once a year, L&OR has a print issue—50+ pages that are sold online and at stores across the country.

1 month ago | loveandotherrugs.substack.com | Lily Sullivan

Today, today right now, the second print volume of Love and Other Rugs is available for purchase. 52-pages of essays from this season, travel guides, and shopping recs with a double-sided poster as the centerfold. Two of the essays—On Floors, which is all about my love for fraternity basements, and Drinking & Other Drugs, a guest essay by Eliza Dumais—have not yet been published on the internet. You can buy the issueHERE and starting next week, IRL at stores in NYC, LA and Austin.

2 months ago | loveandotherrugs.substack.com | Lily Sullivan

I remember the day when my mother told me I should never marry a man from St. Louis. There was an undercurrent of look how it turned out for me in her warnings. She had phenomenal taste. Except perhaps in men. She had the chopped up wedding albums to prove it. But what was it about her warning that drew me even closer to Midwesterners? What was it about my upbringing—split between Los Angeles and St. Louis—that made me crave something that felt like home?

2 months ago | loveandotherrugs.substack.com | Lily Sullivan

The premiere volume of Love and Other Rugs is presented by Backdrop. If you are new... check out the archive. I complain about ghosting and grey sofas and exes in proverbial storage units, among other things. In 2021, I bought myself an apartment. Vibrator sales must be good, people would say. Dead mom money. I would assure them. People would nod and express their condolences. I really couldn’t afford to buy an apartment.

2 months ago | loveandotherrugs.substack.com | Lily Sullivan

The premiere volume of Love and Other Rugs is presented by Backdrop. Have you ever left a chair on the sidewalk because it didn’t quite work, or you upgraded, or some wood splintered? Maybe you put a sign up that said “free” or “perfectly good, just needs a fresh coat of paint”. Does the chair in question wonder what happened as its previous seat warmer walks away, guilt-free? No semblance of a goodbye—just stashed next to last night's pizza boxes and a building's stack of black bags on garbage day.