Josephine Riesman

Photograph by S.I. Rosenbaum

About The Author

Josephine Riesman is the New York Times bestselling author of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America and the Hugo finalist True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. She was a longtime staffer at New York magazine and its culture site, Vulture, and her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, and Rolling Stone, among other publications. She is trans and lives in Portugal with her spouse and their cats. 

Books by Josephine Riesman

The Last Temptation of Beck

The Untold Story of a Pop Messiah

By Josephine Riesman
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Ringmaster and the Hugo finalist True Believer, a propulsive and stylish account of Beck, who was received as a pop messiah in the 1990s, but whose closest friends and most devoted fans never knew his buried secrets.
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