Joel Rose

(Crown, 1998; Canongate, 1998; Penguin, 1999)

“Stylish, Dead-pan funny and exhaustingly fashionable. The pace never drops.”

“There’s no denying its power. Very good indeed.”

“Rose has crammed the crime genre into a pulverizing blender and spewed out a terrifyingly violent, funny, sexy, and hypnotic novel.”

 

"Hungry Ghosts is a special book and one that will be hard to shelve: graphic art, cookbook, spooky tales, a testimony to friendship and a cultural introduction to supernatural Japan. Take a seat at the table and read.

-- Japan Times   

(Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988)

"Tough, terse snapshots of urban America"

"Undeniable charm and gritty rhythm."

"Wholly convincing, compelling, and full of energy."

 

A Novel of History and Murder

(W.W. Norton & Company, March 2007)

"A marvelous novel."

"Irresistibly seductive.... Murder mystery, historical novel, portal to another time."

"Thoroughly entertaining."

(Bloomsbury, 2001)

"Joel Rose's suspenseful saga relives the greatest hoax ever recorded in New York City history."
"On a summer day in the eighteen-twenties, two men brought startling news to New York City's Centre Market. Manhattan, they announced, was sinking. The men explained that the mayor had sanctioned an emergency plan to saw off the bottom half of the island, drag it out into the harbor, turn it head to toe, and reattach it. Joel Rose's semi-fictional re-creation of the hoax reflects on the peculiar complicity that exists between the duper and the duped."
"Sure to get people talking big-time!"

(DC Comics, Paradox Press, 1994)

Written by Amos Poe and Joel Rose. Art by Tayyar Ozkan

"This pioneering graphic novel mystery blends hard-boiled genre conventions with punk and transgressive aesthetics, resulting in a lost classic of the 1990s."

(Penguin Contemporary American Fiction, 1988)

Edited by Joel Rose and Catherine Texier

(DC Comics, Paradox Press, 1996)

True Stories of History's Most Notorious Gangs, Posses, and Mobs.

Written by Joel Rose. Art by a hoard of various comic book artists.

(DC Comics, Paradox Press, 1995)

63 Tales of the World's Most Incompetent Jailbirds

(W.W. Norton & Company, 1993)

Edited by Joel Rose and Catherine Texier