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

Bloomsbury – Matt Bell blurb for World Gone Water:

Bloomsbury – Amy Grace Loyd blurb for World Gone Water:

Feb 4 Real Change review by Joe Martin of Vernon Downs

Literary Hub feature re Ramona Ausubel and the Newtonville Books Questionnaire

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

Correspondence – Garden Lakes

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

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

Correspondence – re Harold Ober Mystery Teleplay by JDC

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

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”

Correspondence – re “Why I Quit Being a Writer” by JDC published by the Literary Hub (“The Salinger Principle”)

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

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

2016 Author Holiday Giving Posters by Douglas Bauer, Aimee Bender, Karen E. Bender, Kenneth Calhoun, Ben Fountain, Atul Gawande, Julia Glass, Elizabeth Graver, Ann Hood, Owen King, Rachel Kushner, Holly LeCraw, Marianne Leone, Jonathan Lethem, Margot Livesey, Allison Lynn, Gregory Maguire, Tova Mirvis, Celeste Ng, Tom Perrotta, David Ryan, Jim Shepard, Karen Shepard, Jessica Treadway, Laura van den Berg, and Jonathan Wilson.

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.”

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

IMDB listing for World Gone Water book trailer

Finished copy of Garden Lakes published by Bloomsbury

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.”

Finished copy of The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC, with contributions from Amanda Eyre Ward, Ben Schrank, Nathaniel Rich, Elizabeth Searle, Adam Langer, Heidi Julavits, Victor LaValle, Neil LaBute, Mary-Beth Hughes, Aimee Bender, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Joshua Furst, Ed Park, Samantha Hunt, Roxana Robinson, David Leavitt, Sam Lipsyte, Allison Lynn, and James Scott

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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.”

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

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.”

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

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

Boston Book Festival Guide, Oct 14-15, 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.”

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.”

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

Booklist review of Garden Lakes

Galley of reissue of We’re So Famous published by Bloomsbury, including an afterword by JDC entitled Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle

Publishers Marketplace mention of deal for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC

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

New York Times Book Review featuring capsule review of Garden Lakes

Finished copy of reissue of We’re So Famous published by Bloomsbury, with an introduction by Charles Bock and including an afterword by JDC entitled Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle

New York Times article “Ann Patchett’s Guide for Bookstore Lovers” dated Dec 6, featuring Newtonville Books mention

Tickets to July 17 Paul McCartney concert at Fenway Park

Photocopies of title pages of books signed to JDC and Mary Cotton – 2016. Books transferred to the Center for Fiction, Brooklyn.

Guardian newspaper book section featuring mention of “Why I Quit Being a Writer” by JDC, published by Literary Hub

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

Ticket to August 7 Pearl Jam concert at Fenway Park

Guardian newspaper reprint of “Interview with a Bookstore: Newtonville Books,” first published in Literary Hub

Newtonville Books bookmark designed by George Saunders

Announcement re JDC July 15 reading at Cornelia Street Café in NYC (+)

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

Kirkus review of Garden Lakes

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

Bloomsbury – Julia Glass blurb for Garden Lakes:

Bloomsbury – Brad Watson blurb for Garden Lakes:

Bloomsbury – Margot Livesey blurb for Garden Lakes:

Bloomsbury – Scott Cheshire blurb for Garden Lakes:

Bloomsbury – Paul Harding blurb for Garden Lakes:

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

Finished copy of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC as J.D. West, hardcover size, matte cover

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

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.”

Grub Street “Muse and the Marketplace” conference bulletin ad for Newtonville Books featuring reissue of We’re So Famous by JDC

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

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

Manuscript – Vernon Downs screenplay by JDC

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.”

Boston Globe book section with “New England Literary News” by Nina MacLaughlin featuring piece on JDC and David Ryan viz Bookmarked publications; incl copies of listings for Bookmarked events at Sarah Lawrence College and Greenlight bookstore, not attended by JDC; and Ig Publishing notice of publication for Bookmarked editions by JDC and David Ryan.

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

Photocopies of title pages of books signed to JDC and Mary Cotton – 2017. Books transferred to the Center for Fiction, Brooklyn.

2017 Author Holiday Giving Posters by Mona Awad, Douglas Bauer, Kenneth Calhoun, Ben Fountain, Atul Gawande, Julia Glass, Meredith Goldstein, Annie Hartnett, Amy Hempel, Ann Hood, Owen King, Marianne Leone, Jonathan Lethem, Margot Livesey, Victor Lodato, Nina MacLaughlin, Claire Messud, Tova Mirvis, Stuart Nadler, Tom Perrotta, Heidi Pitlor, James Scott, Elizabeth Searle, Karen Shepard, Jessica Treadway, Laura van den Berg, Sarai Walker, and Jonathan Wilson.

JDC Contemporary Author listing, updated

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

New York Times Book Review featuring Hillary Chute on the cover, signed by Hillary

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

Correspondence with Amazon.com re their practice of promoting used books on their website over the publishers’ new editions

Boston Book Festival Guide. Oct 27-28, 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.

Boston Globe piece “Val Emmich of 30 ROCK, UGLY BETTY makes an impression at Newtonville Books”

Tickets for Feb 17 event with George Saunders at First Parish Church in Cambridge, with MEC and Christopher Boucher; incl Feb 15 issue of Kirkus Reviews with Saunders on the cover, signed.

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

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