Joel Rose
Joel Rose is an American novelist. Career. His novels include "The Blackest Bird" (2007), "Kill the Poor" (1988), and "Kill Kill Faster Faster" (1988). He also authored the urban historical, "New York Sawed in Half: An Urban Historical" (2001), and was editor of a collection that included work by Anthony Bourdain, Mat Johnson, Franz Lidz, and Jerry Stahl, among others. His articles has appeared in magazines and newspapers including "BlackBook", "Bomb", "Details", the "Los Angeles Times", "Marie Claire", "New York", "New York Newsday", "The New York Times", and "PAPER". He also established and co-edited (with Catherine Texier ) the Lower East Side quarterly literary magazine "Between C & D" (1983–1990), and has written for several television shows, including "Kojak" and "Miami Vice". "Kill the Poor" and "Kill Kill Faster Faster" were made into films in 2003 and 2008, respectively, and Rose participated in the screen adaptation of the latter. "Kill Kill Faster Faster" (2008) won Best International Feature at the 2008 London Independent Film Festival, won Best Editing in a HD Feature Film and second place in Best High-Definition Feature at the 2008 HDFest, and won Best Independent Feature Film at 2008 Charity Erotic Awards. Rose has edited  and co-authored graphic novels for DC Comics, including "La Pacifica" (Paradox Press), written with Amos Poe with art by Tayyar Ozkan, and "Get Jiro!" (Vertigo Comics), written with Anthony Bourdain with art by Langdon Foss. "Get Jiro!" was a #1 "New York Times" Bestseller. A prequel to "Get Jiro!", "Get Jiro! Blood and Sushi" was published in October 2015. "Blood and Sushi" was also a "New York Times" Bestseller. In 2018 Rose and Bourdain collaborated on the graphic novel "Hungry Ghosts" (Dark Horse Comics/Berger Books), based on the Edo period samurai game Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (100 Candles) with cover  art by Paul Pope and interior work featuring Vanesa Del Rey, Sebastian Cabrol, Francesco Francavilla, Irene Koh, Leonardo Manco, Alberto Ponticelli, and Mateus Santolouco. Rose's novels have been translated into 12 languages. Personal life. Rose was married to his literary partner Catherine Texier, with whom he has two daughters. Texier documented the decline of their relationship in her memoir "Breakup: The End of a Love Story" (1998). Rose is now married to editor/publisher Karen Rinaldi. They have two sons.