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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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?”)
Post Road Magazine – Mary Cotton email to editors re “Trial by Trash” by Jon Stattmann from Post Road 11 being a Best American Essays Honorable Mention in the volume edited by Lauren Slater
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Emails re the end of the Post Road Ambassador Program
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Mary Cotton email to editors re Post Road 11 Pushcart Special Mentions: “The Magic Box” by Robert Anthony Siegel, “All or Nothing at the Faberge” by Peter Grandbois, and “She, Under the Umbrella, Went” by Melissa Haley
Cotton, Mary
Pushcart Prize
Siegel, Robert Anthony
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham re Post Road trademarking application
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email to Boston area lit mag editors inviting them to sit on the Post Road panel at Lesley University
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Request to anthologize “Gold Firebird” by Peter Rock from Post Road 12 in Best Stories from the Southwest
Rock, Peter
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Query from Jan Gardner of The Boston Globe re Post Road; incl Mary Cotton answers.
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road 13 recommendations
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with George Saunders re the inaugural “Post Road Questionnaire” (to replace the “Twenty Questions” feature); incl GS’s answers to PRQ.
Saunders, George
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Literary Ventures Fund re starting a Post Road fiction and poetry writing contest; incl email exchange with Michael Chabon re judging contest.
Chabon, Michael
Post Road Magazine
Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol VI
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Don’t You Forget About Me – Steve Almond, Lisa Gabriele, and Dan Pope essays reprinted in The National Post (Canada)
Almond, Steve
Gabriele, Lisa
Pope, Dan
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Almond, Steve
Borders, Lisa
Franklin, Emily
Searle, Elizabeth
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Various listings and press for Don’t You Forget About Me Coolidge Corner event incl Coolidge Corner Theatre web site listing, Boston Phoenix starred listing, Boston Herald listing, Boston Globe listing, and Brookline Booksmith listing
Almond, Steve
Borders, Lisa
Franklin, Emily
Searle, Elizabeth
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Almond, Steve
Borders, Lisa
Franklin, Emily
Searle, Elizabeth
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Boston Globe press re John Hughes anthology Coolidge Corner Theatre event
Almond, Steve
Borders, Lisa
Franklin, Emily
Searle, Elizabeth
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Boston Phoenix press re John Hughes anthology Coolidge Corner Theatre event
Almond, Steve
Borders, Lisa
Franklin, Emily
Searle, Elizabeth
Indianapolis Star bestseller list including Don’t You Forget About Me
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Don’t You Forget About Me – Screenshot of web site for XM Satellite radio show Broadminded featuring interview with JDC
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Washington Times review of Don’t You Forget About Me by Robert Stacy McCain; plus review by Christian Toto.
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Mediabistro piece on anthologies featuring JDC and Don’t You Forget About Me
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Screenshot of KMOX website featuring Mark on Movies interview with JDC re Don’t You Forget About Me, hosted by Mark Reardon
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Ploughshares interview with Lewis Robinson including Don’t You Forget About Me mention
Robinson, Lewis
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Columbus Dispatch review of Don’t You Forget About Me dated March 26 by Nick Chordas
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Manuscript – We’re So Famous screenplay – Gertrude version 4
Spicer, Nick
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – Mockingbird Pictures re We’re So Famous screenplay
Spicer, Nick
We're So Famous: A Novel
Spicer, Nick
We're So Famous: A Novel
Lynn, Allison
Borders, Lisa
Searle, Elizabeth
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Manuscript – World Gone Water
World Gone Water: A Novel
JDC NYC press schedule for Don’t You Forget About Me
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Bennington College
Village Voice listing for Don’t You Forget About Me event at IFC Center in NYC
Lynn, Allison
Searle, Elizabeth
Borders, Lisa
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
The Onion listing for Don’t You Forget About Me event at IFC Center in NYC
Lynn, Allison
Borders, Lisa
Searle, Elizabeth
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Various listings for Don’t You Forget About Me event at IFC Center in NYC in AM New York, Gothamist, and The L Magazine
Lynn, Allison
Borders, Lisa
Searle, Elizabeth
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Correspondence – with Lauren Abramo at Dystel Goderich re World Gone Water
World Gone Water: A Novel
Lynn, Allison
Borders, Lisa
Searle, Elizabeth
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Correspondence – with Lauren Abramo at Dystel Goderich re submission of What I Wanted to Be: A Memoir by JDC
Literary Journey
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
“A-List” feature from Tribute Magazine featuring Don’t You Forget About Me
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Anthologists’ Roundtable by JDC in The Southeast Review
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Cotton, Mary
Publishers Weekly
Newtonville Books
University of Arizona Alumnus magazine, featuring JDC mention re Don’t You Forget About Me
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
University of Arizona
Correspondence re Mary Cotton purchase of Newtonville Books
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Talk Show at Fanzine.com – Vol II
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Correspondence re transition of Newtonville Books
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Talk Show at Fanzine.com – Vol I
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Rector, Liam
Bennington College
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Jennifer and Adam Pieroni re integrating Post Road and Quick Fiction
Post Road Magazine
Talk Show Episode: First Kiss with Mike Albo, David Hollander, Molly Jong-Fast, Lewis Robinson, and Wesley Stace
Robinson, Lewis
Stace, Wesley (aka John Wesley Harding)
Albo, Mike
Jong-Fast, Molly
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: First Concert with Tod Goldberg, Paul Harding, Pagan Kennedy, Rick Moody, and Elizabeth Searle
Goldberg, Tod
Harding, Paul
Searle, Elizabeth
Moody, Rick
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Witness to History with Maud Casey, Myla Goldberg, Karl Iagnemma, and Christopher Sorrentino
Casey, Maud
Goldberg, Myla
Iagnemma, Karl
Sorrentino, Christopher
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Childhood Hero with T Cooper, Lisa Selin Davis, Ellen Litman, Elissa Schappell, and Amanda Eyre Ward
Ward, Amanda Eyre
Cooper, T
Davis, Lisa Selin
Schappell, Elissa
Litman, Ellen
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Post Road Magazine – Luna Park review of Post Road 14
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with the University of Arizona Poetry Center reclaiming Post Road archives
Post Road Magazine
University of Arizona
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road fundraiser
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Summer 2007 issue of Writer’s Chronicle featuring full page ad for Lesley MFA Program incl mention of Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Talk Show Episode: First Day of School with Susan Cheever, Rachel Kadish, Daphne Kalotay, Mameve Medwed, Hannah Tinti, and Vendela Vida
Cheever, Susan
Kalotay, Daphne
Tinti, Hannah
Vida, Vendela
Kadish, Rachel
Medwed, Mameve
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Movie Remakes with Steve Almond, Emily Franklin, Ben Greenman, Lydia Millet, and Neal Pollack
Pollack, Neal
Almond, Steve
Franklin, Emily
Greenman, Ben
Millet, Lydia
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Post Road Magazine – Spring 2007 student evaluation of Post Road internship at Lesley University MFA Program; incl Lesley program flyer.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Margaret Hannigan at The Mercury Lounge in NYC re Post Road party at Associated Writing Program conference in NYC in 2008; incl contract.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Rebecca Wolff re merging Post Road and Fence
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Elizabeth Graver re the possibility of merging Post Road with Boston College; incl EG’s response.
Graver, Elizabeth
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Fax to Mary Crane at Boston College re Post Road financials
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road panel at Lesley MFA Program residency
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Post Road readers thanking them for their service and releasing them; incl replies from readers.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Pete Hausler and Lisa Selin Davis re featuring Post Road at KGB Emerging Memoirists Night
Davis, Lisa Selin
Hausler, Pete
KGB Bar
Post Road Magazine
KGB Bar
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Mary Crane re Post Road and Boston College merger
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham re approval of Post Road’s trademark
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Michael Kimball re his “Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathan Bender” from Post Road 12 being chosen as an Honorable Mention for Best American Nonrequired Reading, edited by Dave Eggers
Eggers, Dave
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re “Down in the Valley” by Kevin Lutz from Post Road 13 and “Ghost of Ten” by Shara Sinor from Post Road 13 being selected as Honorable Mentions for Best American Essays, edited by David Foster Wallace
Wallace, David Foster
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re the closing of POB 400951 in Cambridge
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – email from distributor Bernhard DeBoer announcing their closing
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with David Ryan re whether or not Post Road should publish the same author in subsequent issues and the adoption of the two-year rule
Ryan, David
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Blake Butler re AWP Atlanta; incl postcard invites to Post Road party.
Butler, Blake
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Pushcart nominations: “Alabama” by Murray Dunlap, “Nothing to Look at Here” by Richard Hoffman, “Ghost of Ten” by Shara Sinor, “Face for Radio” by Dora Malech, “Confessions of a Pilsner Drinker” by Rene Georg Vasicek, and “Land” by Mark Wisniewski
Hoffman, Richard
Pushcart Prize
Wisniewski, Mark
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Michael Pilmer re Mark Mothersbaugh cover for Post Road 15
Mothersbaugh, Mark
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road fiction and poetry writing contest
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Copy of Lesley/LVF/Post Road agreement
Post Road Magazine
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
O the Places I've Lived!
Correspondence – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence – American Energies: Contemporary Writers and Their Achievements,Ambitions, and Aspirations, edited by JDC
Literary Journey
Unrealized Projects
Correspondence – Talk Show at Fanzine.com – Vol II
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Glass, Julia
Bock, Charles
Sorrentino, Christopher
Strauss, Darin
Scibona, Salvatore
Miller, Adrienne
Grossman, Lev
Robinson, Roxana
Millet, Lydia
Maazel, Fiona
Beller, Thomas
Bender, Karen E.
Albert, Elisa
Rich, Nathaniel
Canty, Kevin
D'Souza, Tony
Franklin, Emily
Searle, Elizabeth
Sherman, Rachel
Siegel, Robert Anthony
Literary Journey
Unrealized Projects
Manuscript – Vernon Downs, annotated by JDC
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Ebershoff, David
Publishers Weekly
Literary Journey
Correspondence – Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Correspondence – Talk Show at Fanzine.com – Vol I
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Worst Job with Christopher Boucher, Brock Clarke, Elizabeth Gaffney, Felicia Sullivan, and Jen Trynin
Boucher, Christopher
Clarke, Brock
Sullivan, Felicia
Gaffney, Elizabeth
Trynin, Jen
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Correspondence – Askold Melnyczuk
Melnyczuk, Askold
Correspondence – Liam Rector
Rector, Liam
Time Out New York listing for Nov 8 KGB Reading with David Ryan
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
Addendum to interview with Bret Easton Ellis – Transcript and BEE’s Notes; includes audiotape of interview.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Hausler, Pete
New York City
Ellis, Bret Easton
Manuscript – “The Vegetable King.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-14. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.) (Retitled: “The Flat Earth”)
Literary Journey
Pushcart Prize
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Manuscript – “Knollwood.” Short story. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Literary Journey
Bingham, Robert
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
Bennington College
Bennington College
Literary Journey
Manuscript – “The Loan.” Unfinished short story. Handwritten. One page.
Literary Journey
Manuscript – “I Guess This Is Goodbye, Then.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-17. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Literary Journey
Manuscript – “Kink.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-19.
Literary Journey
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
Literary Journey
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Misc. related to Bennington alum writing retreat at Davis Alumni House with David Ryan, Mike Rosovsky, Susan Breen, and Rebecca Boyd (Aug 9-Aug 13).
Rosovsky, Michael
Ryan, David
Boyd, Rebecca
Breen, Susan
Bennington College
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
Literary Journey
Literary Journey
Jan-June 311 W. 6th Ave, NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
July: 25 Jay St., Brooklyn
O the Places I've Lived!
New York City
Ames, Jonathan
New York City
Correspondence – Liam Rector
Rector, Liam
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Misc Adventures
Misc Adventures
Correspondence re the publication of “The Serial Lover” in AGNI. Includes contract dated September 24, 1998 and July 1999 cover letter with galleys.
AGNI Magazine
Melnyczuk, Askold
Literary Journey
Barthelme, Frederick
Rosovsky, Michael
Bock, Charles
Ryan, David
Boyd, Rebecca
The Mississippi Review
Literary Journey
Harold Ober Associates profit sharing documents
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
Correspondence re the all-interview issue of The Mississippi Review edited by JDC. Includes drafts of interviews with Bret Easton Ellis, Rick Bass, Mary Gaitskill, Tim Gautreaux, Thom Jones, Rick Moody, and Padgett Powell.
Barthelme, Frederick
Rosovsky, Michael
Bock, Charles
Ryan, David
Boyd, Rebecca
The Mississippi Review
Literary Journey
Manuscript – “Salt Lake City” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-12.
Literary Journey
Invitation to Thomas C. Wallace‘s Halloween party at the Century Club
New York City
AGNI 50 featuring “The Serial Lover” by JDC. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
AGNI Magazine
Melnyczuk, Askold
Literary Journey
Correspondence re the publication of “Lindy” in the 1999 Mississippi Review Prize Issue. Includes contract dated November 23, 1999 and November 1999 galleys.
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Literary Journey
Bennington College
Correspondence re the publication of “Screen Test” (formerly “Sacrifice”) in Black Dirt. Includes contract dated April 1999 and November 1999 galleys.
Black Dirt Magazine
Literary Journey
The Mississippi Review Prize Issue featuring “Lindy” by JDC (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Literary Journey
Literary Journey
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Standard Deviation
Literary Journey
We’re So Famous – Draft and research material for novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
Harold Ober Associates
Post Road Magazine
Apr: 311 W. 6th Ave, NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
Sept: 245 E. 80th St., NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
Dec: 245 E. 80th St., NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
KGB Bar
The Mississippi Review
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
Ames, Jonathan
New York City
Flyer and Invitation for “Starbound New Writers Night” at Russian Samovar- March 7, 2000 reading with David Ryan. Hosted by Fiona Maazel + Nicole Krauss
Ryan, David
Maazel, Fiona
New York City
Literary Journey
Standard Deviation
New York City
Literary Journey
Time Out New York listing for April 9, 2000 “Mississippi Review Night” reading at KGB with David Ryan
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
The Mississippi Review
KGB Bar
New York City
Standard Deviation
New York City
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
New York City
New York City
We're So Famous: A Novel
New York City
Standard Deviation
New York City
Literary Journey
Galapagos postcard advertising “Standard Deviation Night” – October 25, 2000
Standard Deviation
New York City
Literary Journey
New York City
Shout Magazine
New York City
Post Road Magazine
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – JDC author photo
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Claire McKinney re publicity for We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Loose galleys for We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Panagiotis Gianopoulos re We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Loose galleys for We’re So Famous, corrected by JDC.
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Contract for We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas