Name: Eileen G'Sell - Lipstick
Start: 2026-02-12T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 399 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63108

Eileen G'Sell - Lipstick
Presented by Left Bank Books & the Left Bank Books Foundation
In conversation with Aisha Sultan, award-winning columnist and features writer
Please help us welcome Eileen G'Sell, award-winning author & Washington University Teaching Professor of College Writing, to Left Bank Books to discuss her new "brilliant" and "elegant" book Lipstick from the Object Lessons series from Bloomsbury.
G'Sell will personalize and sign copies after the presentation! Personalized and signed copies will be available to be mailed anywhere in the country. For personalized copies, please order before noon on February 12th.
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About the Speakers
Eileen G'Sell is Teaching Professor of College Writing at Washington University, St. Louis, USA. She is also the film critic for The Hopkins Review, an award-winning literary and culture magazine published by Johns Hopkins University. Her writing has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Baffler, Jacobin, Los Angeles Review of Books, Belt Magazine, Current Affairs, Film Quarterly, and Hyperallergic, among other publications. In 2023, she received the Rabkin prize in arts journalism.
Aisha Sultan is a nationally syndicated columnist and award-winning filmmaker and features writer. Her work has run in more than a hundred publications, including The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. She has won several national honors recognizing her writing. Her work explores social change with an emphasis on education, families and inequality. She frequently speaks at conferences, universities and corporate training events.
About Lipstick (Object Lessons)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself.
Who wears lipstick today - as a matter of routine? And for those who do, is it out of obligation to a strict feminine standard, or some other reason entirely? 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.