Joel Rose's most recent novel is The Blackest Bird. The Blackest Bird has been translated into 13 languages. Previous books include Kill the Poor, Kill Kill Faster Faster (both of which have been made into films), and New York Sawed in Half.


**WINNER*** BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM KILL KILL FASTER FASTER STARRING GIL BELLOWS AND LISA RAY DIRECTED BY GARETH ROBERTS 2008 LONDON INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

Coming July 2012, a graphic novel from DC Comics/​Vertigo, Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose's GET JIRO!! Art by Langdon Foss (Heavy Metal).



"Get Jiro!! is a lavish production with a great artist," Bourdain told the Charleston (SC) City Paper. "It's something I'm doing because I can. It will be foodcentric; the food details will be ripe, hyper-violent, futuristic. I hesitate to use the word satire; it's not post-apocalyptic, but it's an alternate future where food and restaurants and chefs are the only source of status and entertainment left.

"It will probably pit the internationalists against locavores, people who are willing to kill or die over whether the tomatoes are local.

"All I can tell you for sure is that it will look amazing."

Selected Works

Fiction
The Blackest Bird
"An irresistibly seductive behemoth of a book."
--Anthony Bourdain
Kill Kill Faster Faster
“A modern urban masterpiece.”
--Irvine Welsh
Kill the Poor
“Sharp, savage and extremely well written.”
--New York Times
Urban Historical
New York Sawed in Half
"A novelist's touches bring history to life."
--USA Today
Graphic Novels
La Pacifica
"The writing is crisp, the art grim. What a movie this would make!"
-- Flux Magazine
"This pioneering graphic novel mystery blends hard-boiled genre conventions with punk and transgressive aesthetics, resulting in a lost classic of the 1990s."
--Borderland Speakeasy #14: The No Wave Noir of La Pacifica
The Big Book of Thugs
"Learn about lots of really nasty people that you've probably never heard of."
--Bryan Shultz
The Big Book of Little Criminals
DC Comics' Award-Winning Factoid Book
Short Story Anthologies
Between C&D: New Writing from the Lower East Side Fiction Magazine
"Violent. Sexy....Plenty that readers will admire."
--Library Journal
Love is Strange: Stories of Postmodern Romance
"Not your ordinary love stories."
--Publisher's Weekly