{{short description|American novelist}} '''Joel Rose''' is an American novelist.
==Career== His novels include ''The Blackest Bird'' (2007),<ref>{{cite book|last=Rose|first=Joel|publisher=W. W. Norton|date=March 17, 2007|title=The Blackest Bird|isbn=978-0393062311|url=https://archive.org/details/blackestbirdnove00rose}}</ref> ''Kill the Poor'' (1988),<ref>{{cite book|last=Rose|first=Joel|title=Kill the Poor|publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press|location= New York|date= 1998|isbn= 0871132605 }}</ref> and ''Kill Kill Faster Faster'' (1988).<ref>{{cite book |last=Rose|first=Joel|publisher=Penguin Books |date=1988 |isbn=9780140273298 |title=Kill Kill Faster Faster |url=https://archive.org/details/killkillfasterfa00joel }}</ref> He also authored the urban historical, ''New York Sawed in Half: An Urban Historical'' (2001),<ref>{{cite book|last=Rose|first=Joel|date=May 4, 2001 |publisher= Bloomsbury USA |title=New York Sawed in Half: An Urban Historical |isbn=9781582340982 }}</ref> and was editor of a collection that included work by Anthony Bourdain, Mat Johnson, Franz Lidz, and Jerry Stahl, among others.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} Rose's 1980s short stories, which appeared in a number of magazines, were called "scintillating slices of life in Manhattan's notorious Alphabet City . . . in a strong, sure style that never strains" by ''LA Weekly''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105708087/readings-joel-rose-between-c-d/|title=Readings: Joel Rose: Between C & D|date=October 29, 1987|work=LA Weekly|access-date=July 16, 2022|page=140|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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''.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} 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''.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}
''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,<ref name="AIM">{{cite news | url=http://www.asiansinmedia.org/2009/08/08/film-with-lisa-ray-comes-out-on-dvd/ | title=Film with Lisa Ray comes out on DVD | work=AIM Magazine | date=August 8, 2009 | accessdate=May 26, 2011 | archive-date=December 23, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223054441/http://www.asiansinmedia.org/2009/08/08/film-with-lisa-ray-comes-out-on-dvd/ | url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=74947|title=Screen South Supported Talent Win at London Independent Film Festival|date=April 24, 2008|work=4rfv.co.uk|accessdate=26 May 2011}}</ref> won Best Editing in a HD Feature Film and second place in Best High-Definition Feature at the 2008 HDFest,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hdfest.com/hdfestdeffies08features.html |title=HDFest 2008 awards |publisher=HDFest |accessdate=May 26, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221012727/http://www.hdfest.com/hdfestdeffies08features.html |archivedate=February 21, 2009 }}</ref> and won Best Independent Feature Film at 2008 Charity Erotic Awards.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/latest-headlines/story/lisa-ray-gets-bold-and-experimental-44869-2009-04-18 | title=Lisa Ray gets bold and experimental | work=Mail Today | publisher=India Today | date=April 19, 2009 | access-date=May 26, 2011 | author=Prashant Singh}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|website=Goodreads|title=Goodreads Author Joel Rose|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/225206.Joel_Rose}}</ref> ''Get Jiro!'' was a #1 ''New York Times'' Bestseller.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} 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.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}
Rose's novels have been translated into 12 languages.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}
==Personal life== Rose married Linda Rose-Winters (née Bowler) when they were both very young. He was married to his literary partner Catherine Texier, with whom he has two daughters.<ref>{{cite web|website=Goodreas|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008222.Breakup?from_search=true&search_version=service|title=Publishers description of ''Breakup: The End of a Love Story''|accessdate=October 3, 2015}}</ref> Texier documented the decline of their relationship in her memoir ''Breakup: The End of a Love Story'' (1998).<ref>{{cite book|last=Texier|first=Catherine|author-link=Catherine Texier|title=Breakup: The End of a Love Story|publisher=Review|date=1988|isbn=9780747275091}}</ref> Rose married editor/publisher Karen Rinaldi.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} They have one son and a trans femme daughter. The marriage ended in 2021.
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==External links== *{{Official website|https://www.joelrosebooks.com/}}
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