Articles

  • 3 weeks 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.