From flapper girls to Lady Gaga, Grace Jones to Chappell Roan, Eileen G'Sell's debut book of creative nonfiction, Lipstick, reconsiders the beauty world's most conspicuous – and contentious – tool of artifice. Lipstick launches at Housing Works Bookstore in SoHo on Friday, February 6th, and is sure to be a glossy literary affair. Authors Sophie Lewis and Zahra Hankir will join in conversation following the reading.
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