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1 month ago | 
loveandotherrugs.substack.com | Lily Sullivan
A few weeks ago, I was standing in a group as one man questioned the claims of another mans height. I did what any always-looking-for-another-furniture-item kinda gal would do and pulled out a tape measure to settle the score. The 6’1 man (who was actually 5’9) was not thrilled. In an early edition of this newsletter, I told the story of a suitor who offered me a branded t-shirt from his company on my way out of his apartment. Are you a small or medium?, he asked.
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1 month ago | 
loveandotherrugs.substack.com | Lily Sullivan
In April, I wrapped up a 12-week grief group for people who had lost parents to suicide or complications from addiction. I had decided, even after almost 8 years without my mother, I needed a weekly time to grieve—this would be the start. Throughout session, I went back to things I had written about her and continued to return to the words Leah Faye Cooper, Digital Director at Vogue said to me this time last year.
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1 month ago | 
evrimagaci.org | Lily Sullivan
The search for two young children missing from their home in rural northeastern Nova Scotia has entered its fifth day. Four-year-old Jack Sullivan and six-year-old Lily Sullivan were last seen Friday morning in the community of Lansdowne Station. As of May 6, 2025, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have announced they are scaling back the search efforts for the siblings, who disappeared from their home around 10 a.m. on May 2.
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2 months 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.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
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.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
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?
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
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.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
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.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
loveandotherrugs.substack.com | Blake Butler |Lily Sullivan
The second volume of Love and Other Rugs is presented by Kaiyo. Love and Other Rugs is BACK… If you are new, be sure to check out the archive. I complain about ghosting and grey sofas and exes in storage units, among other things. Plus, limited copies of the print issue are available online. About a year ago, maybe it’s two at this point, I went to The River—a cocktail bar located just below Canal street—to meet a self-proclaimed Peter Pan.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
loveandotherrugs.substack.com | Lily Sullivan
The premiere volume of Love and Other Rugs is presented by Backdrop. I prefer to date in waves—like the tides, moments of being entirely immersed and then totally still. In my moments of leaning in—there are multiple horses in the race, no singular baskets, eggs scattered like an easter egg hunt. But in this fantasy, instead of $20 bills and Reese's cups from my aunt—the eggs are filled with promotional condoms and gas station sex toys.
