Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is the author of the novels:

--We’re So Famous, (the first and worst review + actor Malcolm McDowell's hilarious reaction to review + praise for + original American cover + British cover + galley cover for 15th anniversary reissue)

--Vernon Downs, (praise for + book trailer narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper + alternate trailer + original cover),

--World Gone Water, (praise for + book trailer narrated by Thora Birch + original cover)

--Garden Lakes, (praise for + book trailer narrated by the author + original cover)

and the memoirs:

-- Poor Man’s Gatsby (praise for) published as Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in IG Publishing’s Bookmarked series

--Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle, which is the basis for his microcast, Typical (Anthony Michael Hall promo), available on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio,  and elsewhere.

His Charlie Martens trilogy–Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes–is published in an omnibus by Roundabout Press to celebrate the story collection Minor Characters, (ToC), featuring original stories about the minor characters in the trilogy by Mona Awad, Christopher Boucher, Kenneth Calhoun, Nina de Gramont, Ben Greenman, Annie Hartnett, Owen King, Neil LaBute, J. Robert Lennon, Lauren Mechling, Shelly Oria, Stacey Richter, Joseph Salvatore, Andrea Seigel, and Daniel Torday. The collection features a foreword by Jonathan Lethem, and an introduction by Laura van den Berg.

Clarke is also the editor of The Last Novel Ever Published, as well as the anthologies Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, and Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers; and co-editor of the anthologies No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (with Mary Cotton), (ToC) and Boston Noir 2: The Classics (with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.

Under the pseudonym J.D. West, he is the author of the Golden Age detective novel, The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery. (Harold Ober with his wife and Scottie Fitzgerald)

He is a founding editor of the literary magazine Post Road, now published at Boston College, and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston. (Newtonville Books’s 20th anniversary video) (Anniversary video by Mona Awad and Kenneth Calhoun) (Newtonville Books video: “Where do you hold your events?”)

Bloomsbury – J. Robert Lennon blurb for World Gone Water:

2015

Bloomsbury – Matt Bell blurb for World Gone Water:

2015

Bloomsbury – Amy Grace Loyd blurb for World Gone Water:

2015

Feb 4 Real Change review by Joe Martin of Vernon Downs

2015
2015

Correspondence – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC, published by IG Books

2016

Correspondence – Garden Lakes

2016

Manuscript – Charles Bock introduction to Bloomsbury reissue of We’re So Famous

2016

Correspondence – We’re So Famous Bloomsbury reissue + Typical of the Times as an afterword, with an introduction by Charles Bock

2016

Correspondence – re Harold Ober Mystery Teleplay by JDC

2016

Correspondence – Mary Gaitskill re including her Post Road rec in an upcoming book

2016

Manuscript – “The Salinger Principle, or, A Novelist You’ve Never Heard of Calls it Quits” by JDC, published by Literary Hub as “Why I Quit Being a Writer”

2016
2016

Correspondence – The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC writing as as J.D. West

2016

Manuscript – “The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary” – Teleplay by JDC

2016
2016

Mona Awad blurb for reissue of We’re So Famous: “We’re So Famous smartly anticipates a culture re-configured by the quest for fame. The starry-eyed girls at the center of this rock-and-roll fairy tale are the predecessors of today’s selfie-snappers. With biting wit and wry humor, Clarke brilliantly reminds us that we’ve always lived for likes.”

2016

Correspondence – Letter from Setti Warren, mayor of Newton, MA, re Garden Lakes

2016
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Brad Watson blurb for Garden Lakes: “Jaime Clarke reminds us that if the banality of evil is indeed a viable truth, its seeds are most likely sewn among adolescent boys.”

2016
2016

Margot Livesey blurb for Garden Lakes: “In the flawlessly imagined Garden Lakes, Jaime Clarke pays homage to Lord of the Flies and creates his own vivid, inadvertently isolated community.  As summer tightens its grip, and adult authority recedes, his boys gradually reveal themselves to scary and exhilarating effect.  In the hands of this master of suspense and psychological detail, the result is a compulsively readable novel.”

2016

Manuscript – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC (formerly Poor Man’s Gatsby)

2016

Julia Glass blurb for Garden Lakes: “It takes some nerve to revisit a bulletproof classic, but Jaime Clarke does so, with elegance and a cool contemporary eye, in this cunningly crafted homage to Lord of the Flies. He understands all too well the complex psychology of boyhood, how easily the insecurities and power plays slide into mayhem when adults look the other way.”

2016

Manuscript – The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC as J.D. West

2016

Publishers Marketplace mention of deal for Bloomsbury reissue of We’re So Famous

2016

Boston Book Festival Guide, Oct 14-15, 2016. (+)

2016

Paul Harding blurb for Garden Lakes: “As tense and tight and pitch-perfect as Clarke’s narrative of the harrowing events at Garden Lakes is, and as fine a meditation it is on Golding’s novel, what deepens this book to another level of insight and artfulness is the parallel portrait of Charlie Martens as an adult, years after his fateful role that summer, still tyrannized, paralyzed, tangled in lies, wishing for redemption, maybe fated never to get it. Complicated and feral, Garden Lakes is thrilling, literary, and smart as hell.”

2016

Scott Cheshire blurb for Garden Lakes: “Smart, seductive, and suggestively sinister, Garden Lakes is a disturbingly honest look at how our lies shape our lives and destroy our communities. Read it: Part three in one of the best literary trilogies we have.”

2016

Grub Street Muse and the Marketplace conference bulletin ad for Newtonville Books featuring Garden Lakes

2016

Booklist review of Garden Lakes

2016
2016
2016

Fully-executed contract dated Jan 16 with IG Publishing for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC (formerly Poor Man’s Gatsby)

2016

New York Times Book Review featuring capsule review of Garden Lakes

2016
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2016

Brooklyn Rail piece by Joseph Salvatore re the Bookmarked series, featuring mention of JDC

2016
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2016
2016
2016

Draft of introduction by Christopher Boucher for More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Boucher (formerly Overcompensating Autodidact) featuring mention of JDC

2016
2016

Bloomsbury – Mona Awad blurb for reissue of We’re So Famous:

2016

Bloomsbury – Julia Glass blurb for Garden Lakes:

2016

Bloomsbury – Brad Watson blurb for Garden Lakes:

2016

Bloomsbury – Margot Livesey blurb for Garden Lakes:

2016

Bloomsbury – Scott Cheshire blurb for Garden Lakes:

2016

Bloomsbury – Paul Harding blurb for Garden Lakes:

2016

Finished copy – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby (formerly What I Wanted to Be + American Kaleidoscope + Poor Man’s Gatsby)

2017
2017

Strand Magazine featuring full page ad for The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC as J.D. West

2017

Karen E. Bender blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby: “Jaime Clarke’s ode to Gatsby is a completely winning, honest ode to everything: the yearning of an outsider, for success, the drama of the work world, the seduction and darkness of wealth, the search for love and the complex, bumpy life of a writer.  The Nick Carraway of Phoenix stakes his own literary territory here; a charming and engaging book.”

2017
2017

Tickets and Playbill to A Doll’s House Part 2 on Broadway, starring Chris Cooper, with Mary Cotton.

2017

Correspondence – Bloomsbury re story collection Minor Characters based on minor characters from JDC novels, to be written by other authors, and published by Bloomsbury in 2021

2017

Manuscript – Vernon Downs screenplay by JDC

2017

David James Poissant blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby: “Jaime Clarke has penned a smart, funny, beguiling account of his love affair with America’s favorite novel.  This book, like its narrator, lives “both inside Fitzgerald’s pages and out,” the best case of literary obsession I’ve had the pleasure of reading since Nicholson Baker’s U & I.  A must-read, and not just for Gatsby fans.”

2017
2017

Finished copy – More Alive and Less Lonely by Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Boucher, signed to JDC by JL and CB

2017
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2017

Manuscript – Screenplay adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC

2017
2017

Boston Herald piece “Novel takes the cake for former Newton resident” re Annie Hartnett reading at Newtonville Books from her novel, Rabbit Cake

2017
2017

Boston Book Festival Guide. Oct 27-28, 2017. (+)

2017

Stephen King rider re Sept 28 event with SK and Owen King for Sleeping Beauties at First Baptist Church, hosted by Newtonville Books; incl ticket issued to JDC; incl Newton Police Department invoice for police detail.

2017
2017
2017

Blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by Karen E. Bender:

2017

Blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by David James Poissant:

2017

Correspondence – Minor Characters, a collection based on minor characters from JDC novels, featuring original stories by Mona Awad, Christopher Boucher, Kenneth Calhoun, Nina de Gramont, Ben Greenman, Annie Hartnett, Owen King, Neil LaBute, J. Robert Lennon, Lauren Mechling, Shelly Oria, Stacey Richter, Joseph Salvatore, Andrea Seigel, and Daniel Torday, with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem, and an introduction by Laura van den Berg, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2021.

2018

Manuscript – World Gone Water screenplay

2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018

Shelf Awareness email featuring Newtonville Books’s 20th anniversary

2018

Correspondence – Radio play adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC

2018
2018

Newton Tab 2017 Reader’s Choice Awards featuring Newtonville Books

2018
2018
2018
2018

Boston Book Festival Guide. Oct 12-13, 2018. (+)

2018
2018
2018

Publishers Weekly article announcing Newtonville Books as a 2018 Pannell Award nominee

2018
2018

Manuscript – Radio play adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC

2018
2018
2018

Post Road Magazine – Oct 25 Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, re the release party for Post Road 11 on Sat, Nov 19 at Middlesex Lounge in Boston

2005
2005

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Felicia Sullivan re Post Road participating in the Legion of Lit Mags fair in Brooklyn

2005

Post Road Magazine – Dec 27 Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing Post Road’s raffle of ten signed first editions

2005

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Will Quackenbush at the Enormous Room re future Post Road events

2005

Post Road Magazine – Conference bulletin for Associated Writing Program conference in Vancouver, March 30-Apr 2; incl letter from Priscilla Hodgkins at Bennington College re their check for co-hosting the Post Road party; postcard invites for Post Road party at Steamworks Brewing Company on Fri, Apr 1; and paperwork re importing Post Road into Canada for sale at AWP conference.

2005

Post Road Magazine – Column by Alex Beam in The Boston Globe re mention of Jonathan Ames in Post Road

2005

Post Road Magazine – Schedule of subjects for “Twenty Questions” feature, including due dates to advertise for questions, collect questions, submit questions, publish questions

2005

Post Road Magazine – Submission Guidelines and instructions for poetry and fiction slushpile readers

2005

Post Road Magazine – Various Post Road forms, including cover letter to contributor re contract, cover letter to contributor re copyedited version of piece, letter to bookstore owners seeking readers for Post Road slushpile, letter to lit mags requesting swap subscription, letter soliciting a recommendation for Post Road rec section, letter to Newtonville Books First Editions Club members re subscribing to Post Road, invoice to those who subscribed at Post Road parties, and email sign up sheet.

2005

Post Road Magazine – Boston Phoenix article on Post Road titled “A Road More Traveled” by Tamara Wieder

2005
2005
2005
2005
2005

Correspondence – Various Benningtonites re Vernon Downs

2006

JDC Authors Guild Info Packet

2006

Correspondence – Post Road/Lesley/LVF merger

2006

Correspondence – Michael O’Keefe re We’re So Famous

2006
2006
2006

April 15, 2006 contract with Kelly Thomas and Nick Spicer at Mockingbird Pictures for one year film option on We’re So Famous

2006

Impetus Press page layout for Vernon Downs with JDC correx

2006
2006

Correspondence – Impetus Press re Garden Lakes

2006
2006

December 12, 2005 contract with Impetus Press for Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – drafts 1-6 of treatment for film version of We’re So Famous; incl notes from Nick Spicer for each draft.

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol II

2006

Manuscript – copyedited version of Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – formal Hughes proposal for Dystel Goderich Literary Management titled Some Kind of Wonderful: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes (retitled Don't You Forget About Me), edited by JDC with essays from Steve Almond, Julianna Baggott, Lisa Borders, Ryan Boudinot, T Cooper, Quinn Dalton, Nina de Gramont, Emily Franklin, Lisa Gabriele, Tod Goldberg, Tara Ison, Allison Lynn, John McNally, Dan Pope, Lewis Robinson, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Mary Sullivan, Rebecca Wolff, and Moon Unit Zappa

2006

Publishers Marketplace announcement of Some Kind of Wonderful (retitled Don't You Forget About Me) deal with Simon Spotlight Entertainment

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol I

2006

Manuscript – JDC handwritten introduction to Vernon Downs

2006
2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Gertrude version

2006

Contracts between JDC and contributors for John Hughes anthology

2006

Copyedited version of Vernon Downs, bound

2006

Photocopies of various Hughes anthology essays, edited by Terra Chalberg at Simon Spotlight Entertainment

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol III

2006
2006

Galley for Don’t You Forget About Me (formerly Some Kind of Wonderful), edited by JDC

2006

Photocopy of check for on-signing money for John Hughes anthology

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Claudine version, incl notes and outline

2006

Page proofs for Don’t You Forget About Me, edited by JDC

2006

Contract between JDC and Ally Sheedy re introduction to John Hughes anthology, incl correspondence.

2006
2006

Correspondence with Mike Jones at Bloomsbury UK re Vernon Downs

2006

Impetus cover for Vernon Downs

2006

Fall 2006/Winter 2007 Bennington alumni magazine featuring mention of Vernon Downs by JDC

2006
2006

Correspondence with Impetus Press re Vernon Downs

2006

Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Vernon Downs

2006

Impetus page proofs for Vernon Downs

2006

JDC generated key for Vernon Downs

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol IV

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol V

2006

Impetus catalogue copy for Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – O What Fun We’ll Have! O the Times! by JDC

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous screenplay, Gertrude Version 3, typed, 108pgs.

2006

JDC generated Q&A for Impetus re Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous screenplay, Gertrude Version 2, edited by JDC; incl outline and subsequent outline by JDC and Nick Spicer

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Gertrude version 2, incl notes and outline.

2006

Correspondence re potential purchase of Newtonville Books

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Board of Directors, incorporating Literary Ventures Fund

2006

Correspondence – What I Wanted to Be: A Memoir by JDC

2006

Corrrespondence – Mockingbird Pictures re We’re So Famous screenplay

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Lesley interns at Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re merger with Lesley University MFA program and Literary Ventures Fund

2006
2006

Manuscript – What I Wanted to Be: A Memoir by JDC

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Adam Braver contributing interviews to the Etcetera section

2006

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors announcing Post Road/Lesley/Literary Ventures Fund two-year partnership, including press release

2006

Post Road Magazine – Mary Cotton email to editors re Karen E. Bender nominating “Now It’s Clean” by Nina de Gramont for a Pushcart Prize

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Post Road Ambassadors re Post Road 12 release parties

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with summer youth camps re donating excess copies of Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Post Road Ambassador Blake Butler, Pablo at Mark Ultralounge, and Steven Cramer at Lesley re March 2 AWP Atlanta party in 2007

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re reprinting “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” by Eric Tyrone McLeod in an anthology published by the University of California San Diego

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Mary Cotton appearance on The Jordan Rich Show (radio) and WICN’s Inquiry (radio)

2006

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re using copyedited electronic galleys instead of paper galleys

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Lit Mag Holiday Parties at the Mercury Lounge in NYC on Dec 17 with One Story, Fence, Open City, Tin House, and A Public Space at The Paradise in Boston on Dec 4 with Redivider, Ploughshares, Agni, Quick Fiction, Salamander and Night Train; incl Village Voice listing for NYC party and Boston Globe “Shelf Life” piece.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Victoria Clausi at Bennington MFA program re a Post Road/Bennington merger; including Mar 17 newsletter recapping Austin Post Road/Bennington party.

2006

Post Road Magazine – re Post Road/Four Stories event on Sept 25 featuring Lise Haines, Richard Hoffman, Randi Triant, and Paul Yoon.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re “Twenty Questions” with David Mamet

2006

Post Road Magazine – Bennington College newsletter re Post Road attending the Legion of Lit Mag Party at Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; incl correspondence with Felicia Sullivan, organizer.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing May 15 release party for Post Road 12 at the Enormous Room in Cambridge; correspondence with NYC Post Road Ambassador Shomit Barua re May 18 release party at Lolita Bar on Lower East Side.

2006

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors announcing Samantha Pitchel as Assistant Managing Editor

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange re Oona Patrick joining Post Road as a nonfiction editor

2006

Post Road Magazine – Open City Books press release re the publication of The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman, including work published in Post Road; incl RS interview with Bookslut.com.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Noemi Press announcement re the publication of Disciplines by Diana George, incl work published in Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Boston Phoenix interview with Heidi Julavits including mention of Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham re idea of purchasing Newtonville Books and turning it into Post Road Books, a nonprofit bookstore

2006

Post Road Magazine – Post Road proposals to Literary Ventures Fund for Post Road anthology, Open Letters to Subscribers, Silent Auction, and hiring someone to maintain Post Road’s website.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Lit Mag Holiday parties, incl with performers Mike Albo, Sam Lipsyte, Molly Jong-Fast (NYC) and Elizabeth Searle, Daphne Kalotay, and Tom Perrotta (Boston); incl copy of invite

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Outline for Post Road presentation at Lesley University MFA program

2006

Post Road Magazine – 2006 Pushcart nominations: “On the History of the Backgammon Board” by Paul Yoon, “Alabama” by Murray Dunlap, “I Spy” by Elizabeth Powell, “July 19, 1962: Susanna Martin” by Jill McDonough, “Spotlighting” by Ira Sukrungruang, and “Blood and Luck” by Becky Bradway.

2006
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