Joel Rose's most recent novel is The Blackest Bird. His previous books include Kill the Poor, Kill Kill Faster Faster (both of which have been made into films), and New York Sawed in Half. He lives in New York City and on the Jersey shore.


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

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
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
Graphic Novels
La Pacifica
"The writing is crisp, the art grim. What a movie this would make!"
-- Flux Magazine
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

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