Podcast #261 – Mary Lisa Gavenas

Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay, published by Viking in April 2026, is this author’s latest book, which grew out of a fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. It’s a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and the book was praised by The Wall Street JournalTexas MonthlyLit Hub, and other outlets for its lively cultural history of midcentury America, making Kirkus’s list of “Nonfiction Books That… Read More »