Joel Rose - Böcker

What is this thing called love? And where has it gone in contemporary fiction? Do “serious” young writers still attempt love stories? If they do, are the tales they tell drenched in cynicism or tenderness? Is modern love about intimacy, or desire, or obsession, or simple hard-edged attitude? Or all of the above? Love is Strange answers these questions by collecting work from sixteen writers who prowl the edges of human experience and literary form to evoke the landscape of American love from deepest downtown New York and decadent California to politically correct campuses and surreal suburbia.

In the sweltering New York summer of 1841, five people are found brutally murdered. At the center of it all is High Constable Jacob Hays, the young city’s first detective and the novel’s "likeable, crusty narrator" (Time Out New York). His investigation spans years, involving gang wars, graverobbers, and clues hidden in poems by that hopeless romantic and minstrel of the night: Edgar Allan Poe.The Blackest Bird is a gripping and atmospheric historical thriller of murder and deceit in nineteenth-century New York.

Don't miss this original graphic novel from Anthony Bourdain, renowned chef,New York Times bestselling author (Kitchen Confidential, MediumRaw), and star of the Emmy-winning hit travel show No Reservationsand the brand-new series The Layover! Co-written with Joel Rose (La Pacifica, Kill Kill FasterFaster) this stylized send-up of food culture and society features thespectacular, detailed, and dynamic art of Langdon Foss. In a not-too-distant future of food obsessed L.A., where master chefs rulethe town like crime lords and people literally kill for a seat at thebest restaurant, Jiro, a renegade and ruthless sushi chef, arrives in town withstrong ideas of his own. It's a bloody culinary war of epic proportions, and inthe end, no chef may be left alive!