Book Launch | Lipstick by Eileen G'Sell

Hey book lovers, beauty gurus, and anyone who questions the status quo of gender and self-expression! You're invited to join an exciting in-person celebration of Lipstick, the nonfiction debut title by Eileen G'Sell.

Grab your copy and dive into the history of adornment and more with fellow authors Sophie Lewis and Zahra Hankir. It’s the perfect chance to meet Eileen, ask questions, and enjoy a fun literary evening. Don’t miss out on this special event!

From flapper girls to Gaga, Grace Jones to Chappell Roan, Lipstick reconsiders the beauty world's most conspicuous – and contentious – tool of artifice. Tossing expired ideas about femininity like so many tubes of melting wax, Lipstick explores how self-adornment can be a source of play, pleasure, and transformation, as well as how lipstick can knock gender norms off balance.

Eileen G’Sell is a poet and culture critic whose work focuses on gender, sexuality, and economic class. Her work has been published in Poetry magazine, Fence, The Boston Review, The Baffler, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Current Affairs, and Jacobin. She serves as movie critic for The Hopkins Review and frequently reviews film and art for Hyperallergic and Reverse Shot. G'Sell's first book of nonfiction, Lipstick, joins Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series in early 2026. In 2023, she won the Rabkin Prize for excellence in arts journalism.

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