Just approved the final jacket art/copy for @beckbook.com Thank you SOOO much to all the advance readers who were kind enough to blurb!!!!! I will tag you below!!!! In the meantime, everyone go pre-order the book! beckbook.com
![Back cover, with all the many blurbs:
“Riesman gathers an impressive array of interview sources . . . [and] brings a great deal of
empathy to her subject as a longtime fan. . . . Every bit as complex and intriguing as the
pop star himself . . . [A] captivating profile of the Gen X pop sensation.”
—Shelf Awareness (starred review)
“One of the best books I’ve ever read about the forging of an artistic persona—a love story, a
ghost story, a family story spanning three generations of bohemia, and a portrait
of the artist wrestling the forces of evil in a bozo nightmare.”
—Alex Pappademas, senior culture editor at GQ and coauthor of Quantum Criminals
“This biography has everything: sex, secret societies, fashion, betrayal, Hollywood,
rock ’n’ roll—it’s like Pop-Up Video with way more scandal.”
—Colette Shade, author of Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything
“This is alt-rock biography as compulsively readable literary thriller. . . .
In this riveting salvo in her American Myth series, Riesman has captured the dream of the
nineties, but also the nightmare we are yet to wake up from.”
—Aidan Levy, author of Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed
“A gripping thrill for longtime fans as well as readers who have never followed the
trippy, lo-fi output of the Gen X icon . . . It lands as a reckoning.”
—Charlie Wells, author of What Happened to Millennials
“An amazing read . . . Riesman’s book manages to reveal all Beck’s carefully hidden truths,
while never fully ruining what pleasure comes of bearing witness to his legendary oeuvre.”
—Niko Stratis, author of The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
“The Last Temptation of Beck is likely the best book I’ll read all year, and despite the
challenging nature of some of the material, it’s one I read straight through in a single sitting.
Josie’s first two books were great, but this is a masterpiece.”
—Andrew Hickey, host of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
“Josephine Riesman’s book is as uncategorizable as Beck’s music. . . . Fas…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreifbugb7x66tuyn5pg4m2ixn7wzfsn7udqnpmkmmgrafaml3xur22e)
Coming up: Wonder Ones: covering every issue called “Wonder Woman #1” in history, to see how the idea of a Wonder Woman changes over generations Steve Baxi, Chad Nevett and I take on the three part Morrison/Capullo run of Spawn Plastic Fantastic: a column where I cover Plastic Man from the start
RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...
The time spent on an issue of Pricks divided by the sales of each issue works out at about 78p per hour. To pay myself minimum wage I would need to charge around £56 per issue. The only answer is to keep going and hope people discover it. Hope you enjoyed this great advert! Frasergeesin.com
RIP bonnie tyler. lotta folks tonight are gonna learn the extent to which 'total eclipse of the heart' is outside their karaoke range
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I'm putting a Shelfdust feature together about Wonder Woman at the mo. Over the decades there's been six comics called "Wonder Woman #1". What does each one of those six comics have to say about that particular generation's view of "wonder" and "woman"? And how come they've all been written by men
If anyone needs help understanding Infinite Crisis I made a useful guide: shelfdust.com/2020/08/03/t...
The Complete Guide to Infinite Crisis
By Steve Morris There’s a lot of talk nowadays that comics are too confusing: that there’s no way to get into them, and that all the “jumping on” storylines are actually mas…
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Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · last mo.#EventsDearBoy 39. INFINITE CRISIS (2005, DC) The decades-long dream of old-school DC fans is fulfilled and they finally (kind of) reverse Crisis On Infinite Earths in the event whose message is that reading 20 years of DC Comics will, in fact, turn you into a psychopath
Went to see a standup try some light observational material. No laughs. He restarted, embellishing with punishing detail. Long over descriptions. Silence. He restarted again but replaced every word with the sound of breaking wind. His story repeats itself. First as turgidity then as farts.
I wrote about massive corporations funding "resistance art" and how awkward that relationship can be: "Somehow we’re left holding a Marvel comic – and Disney product – calling for violent revolution."
Popcorn Resistance and Algorithmic Radicalism: The Ultimates #21
By Martyn Pedler When promoting the TV show Andor, creator Tony Gilroy was asked not to use the word “fascism”. Disney was prepared to spend a reported $645 million on the show over two seasons – b…
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Hey y'all... Guess what's dropping tomorrow....... That's right........... A SURPRISE EPISODE OF "HERE COMES TOMORROW"!!! And we're interviewing the composer of something very special, that YOU didn't even know existed........ 𝐗-𝐌𝐄𝐍: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋!!! Tune in Wednesday morning, folks...........
X-Men: The Musical at OPRFHS
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Kids are gonna need to know how to type more than one number, Mario.
90's Computer Games Box Art@90scompgamesboxart.bsky.social · last mo.Mario Teaches Typing 2 (1997)
There's a brilliant comics essay by @pauljonmilne.bsky.social on Streets of Fire in @illusclaire.bsky.social's equally brilliant Steinman zine, I massively recommend it bsky.app/profile/illu...
Good Old Claire@illusclaire.bsky.social · last yr.Steinman zine alone (us) mixam.com/print-on-dem...
A timely reminder that Paul Grist is great, Britain ("real" and imagined) sucks eggs, but that the people who live here don't always.
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨 Now running on Shelfdust! 🚨 Bring Me My Stick, O Snakes Unfold: Paul Grist, Superhero Comics, and Britain, by @cepmurphy.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/06/15/b...
Laughed out loud at this beat in DREAM GIRLS #2. @brandtandstein.com are the funniest superhero expressionists since Kevin Maguire.
Pronoun Palace is out now on Steam for $19.84! s.team/a/3618850
I’m Erika and I make horror comics. If you like visceral black and white horror comics you’ll probably enjoy my stuff I sell my work in print here erikapriceart.bigcartel.com And I have a patreon where I post pages from my new series Worms www.patreon.com/erikapriceart
living in Britain is so funny because there’s three easy things you can do that will set a decent part of the population to driving you out of public life and openly fantasising about murdering you and they are - be an ethnic minority - be transgender - ride a bicycle