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Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier

Bottom of the pile

4

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

2/100

Critics

6/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Marisa Meltzer

Publisher:

Atria/One Signal Publishers

Date:

September 12, 2023

An exposé that reveals what happened at Glossier, one of America's hottest and most consequential startups, and dives deep into the enigmatic, visionary woman responsible for it all.

What The Reviewers Say

Hunter Harris,
The New York Times Book Review
A compulsively readable narrative of beauty, business, privilege and mogul-dom. This is a well-reported inside-baseball analysis of a cosmetics company and the culture that surrounded it.
Becca Rothfeld,
The Washington Post
[An] astute dissection.
Diana Heald,
Los Angeles Review of Books
Glossy is not a takedown of Weiss, and as I read the book, I began to feel uncomfortable about why I wanted it to be.

Kirkus
The tone of the book is energetic but overly gushing.