SELECT PRINT, ONLINE
The New York Times Magazine (print), Culture Digest: “30 Books We Loved This Month”
The New York Times Book Review, “Editors’ Choice: Five Books We Love This Week”
The Wall Street Journal, “Selling Opportunity Review: The Mary Kay Way”
Publishers’ Weekly (starred review), Selling Opportunity
Lit Hub, “Most Anticipated Books of 2026”
Kirkus, “20 Nonfiction Books That Read Like Novels”
Air Mail, “Gaslit, Gatekept Girlbosses”
Texas Monthly, “How Mary Kay Built a Billion Dollar Empire”
Harper’s, “New Books”
The Dallas Morning News, “The lonely luxury of Mary Kay: 5 takeaways from the cosmetics queen’s new biography”
LIBER: A Feminist Review, “Face Time: Selling Opportunity”
Garden & Gun, “For the First Time, A Full Picture of Mary Kay”
Washington Independent Review of Books, “Author Q&A: An Interview with Mary Lisa Gavenas”
The Washington Free Beacon, “Mary Kay’s Complete Makeover”
The Winnipeg Free Press, “Beauty on Your Doorstep”
Texas Monthly, “In May, the Texas Book Club Goes All In on Mary Kay”
People, “Mary Kay Ash Was Still Waking Up at 5:00 AM and Rallying Her Beauty Empire's Sales Team at Age 77”
Courier Texas, “History: How Mary Kay Ash Turned Texas Grit Into a Global Beauty Empire”
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, “‘Most Famous Saleswoman’ Subject of Book”
The New York Post, “The Rags to Riches Story Behind Mary Kay Cosmetics”
History in the Margins, “Selling Opportunity: A Q&A with Mary Lisa Gavenas”
Lit Hub, “The Queen of Sales: How Mary Kay Ash Created a Beauty Empire”
Town & Country, “The Billion-Dollar Beauty Mogul and Her Famous Pink Cadillacs”
D Magazine, “Mary Kay’s Moment”
Town & Country, “The 21 Best Books to Read This April”
Storizen, “Nine Best Nonfiction in April”
Unstacked, Traci Thomas: “April Books on Deck”
The New York Times, “29 Books Coming in April”
Town & Country, “48 Must Read Books This Spring”
SELECT Podcasts, broadcasts
The Ron Corning Show, KERA/NPR, “The Woman Behind the Pink Cadillac”
Elena Meets the Author, “Mary Lisa Gavenas on Mary Kay Ash, Direct Selling, and Building a $2 Billion Empire”
Smoke 'Em If Got 'Em, “Mary Kay and the Complicated Politics of Selling the American Dream”
BIO Podcast, “Biographers International Organization: Mary Lisa Gavenas”
Our American Stories, “Mary Kay: The Woman Behind the Pink Cadillac Empire”
New Books Network with Miranda Melcher
All of It with Alison Stewart, WNYC/NPR, “A Guide to What to Read This Spring,”