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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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?”)
O the Places I've Lived!
Manuscript – “A House Divided.” Short Story. Typed. Pgs 1-6.
College Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Arizona State University
Phoenix College
Phoenix, AZ
Manuscript – “Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-42. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
College Writing
College Writing
Manuscript – “St. Janice.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-8.
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
Correspondence – Persona co-fiction editor Lavinia Spalding
Persona Magazine
Spalding, Lavinia
University of Arizona
Johnson, Denis
Manuscript – “Waiting for Christie.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11.
College Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Manuscript – “Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-18. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Table of Contents for Persona Magazine, fiction edited by JDC and Lavinia Spalding
Persona Magazine
Spalding, Lavinia
University of Arizona
Manuscript – “A Complete Gentleman.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-34. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
University of Arizona
Manuscript – “Pleasure Island.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-20. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Manuscript – “Shane of Lubbock.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16.
College Writing
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis incl bio info; “Interview with Bret Easton Ellis,” by Mark Amerika and Alexander Laurence; New York Times Book Review review of The Informers written by George Stade; November/December 1994 U Magazine interview with BEE titled “Days of Whining Poseurs,” by Joshua Mann.
Ellis, Bret Easton
University of Arizona
JDC application to the Bennington College Low-Residency MFA program dated October 11, 1994
Bennington College
Rector, Liam
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
University of Arizona
Ellis, Bret Easton
May-June: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
July-Aug: Kaibab-Huachuca Dorm, Tucson, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
Fall: 4236 N. 103rd Ave, #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
University of Arizona Transcript - 1993-1994; including transcript for Estrella Mountain Community College
University of Arizona
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis including June 1995 Details Magazine profile of Val Kilmer by BEE; May 1995 copy of Manhattan File featuring Glamorama excerpt by BEE; Hotwired interview with BEE; photo of BEE with Candace Bushnell from At Random.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Harold Ober Associates
Apprentice Writing
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – Essay – “Building a Better Character (In 90 Days or Less).” Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – January 1995 workshop – “Urbana.” Annotated by Reginald McKnight. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
McKnight, Reginald
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Don DeLillo’s White Noise.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – June Workshop – “Pleasure Island.” Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ethan Canin’s Star Food.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Center by Amy Hempel.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “I Would Have Saved Them If I Could by Leonard Michaels.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Anton Chekhov’s The Shooting Party.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “David Foster Wallace’s Girl With Curious Hair.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Madison Smartt Bell.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “A Stranger in this World, stories by Kevin Canty.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “U&I by Nicholson Baker.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Urbana” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – ‘Shane of Lubbock” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk; includes alternate version, typed, pgs 1-3.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Pleasure Island” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-19. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – “World Gone Water” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Airships by Barry Hannah.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “The Vegetable King” – Novel excerpt. Typed, pgs 1-44. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “We’re So Famous” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-8. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
We're So Famous: A Novel
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Sportswriter by Richard Ford.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Last” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-2. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Unsaid” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-7. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Anerotic” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-5. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “From Our New York Office” – Short story. Typed, one page.
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “LoveStory” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-19. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – “Monthly Payments’ – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Bennington College
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
Pushcart Prize
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Bennington College
Correspondence – Fiona McCrae at Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press
Bennington College
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Letter from Chelsea Magazine enclosing payment for publication of “A Complete Gentleman” in Chelsea #59; incl color copy of check.
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Correspondence with Webster Younce re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Bennington College
Literary Journey
Correspondence re engagement to Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
Correspondence with Panio Gianopoulos re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
New York Newsday article entitled “Critical Mass” featuring quote from JDC
Publishers Weekly
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence with James Schiff at Time Warner Books re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – proposal for an oral history of the films of John Hughes; includes declining letter from Ryan Harbage at Simon & Schuster
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Correspondence with Coates Bateman re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence and proofs from Hobart Magazine re “This, Too, Stars You” by JDC, edited by Ryan Boudinot. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Hobart Magazine
Boudinot, Ryan
Literary Journey
Correspondence with Elizabeth Sheinkman re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange re closing Post Road’s NYC address at 853 Broadway in favor of POB 400951 in Cambridge, MA
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing release of Post Road 7
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence with various editors re auction of JDC memoir O What Fun We’ll Have! O the Times!
Literary Journey
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Post Road Magazine – Email from Sean Dessureau re postroadmag.com being a finalist for the 2004 Web Awards at South by Southwest
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence with New York agents re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Boudinot, Ryan
Hobart Magazine
Literary Journey
Post Road Magazine – Email to editors re Ricco Siasoco leaving Post Road as web editor
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Ingram Periodicals re Post Road distribution
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Grub Street re Post Road and GS partnering for a fiction prize
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email to Alden Jones and Josephine Bergin re the history of the Etcetera Section
Jones, Alden
Bergin, Josephine
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence with Hollywood agents re We’re So Famous screenplay
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing the publication of Post Road 8
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email to editors announcing Mary Cotton’s ascension as Publisher and President of the Board with JDC as VP of the Board and switching from Etcetera section to Recommendation section
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email from Mary Cotton to editors re upcoming events at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at The Loft in Minneapolis
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Alden Jones re the publication of poems originating in Iran against the U.S. embargo against publication of work from embargoed countries
Jones, Alden
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Hignell re the dissolution of Post Road’s relationship with Hignell after Post Road 8.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Devon Sprague re joining Post Road as a Recommendations editor
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange re having Google AdSense on Post Road website
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with fiction and poetry editors re management of the Post Road slushpile
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email from Heather Fisher re copyediting Post Road
Fisher, Heather
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email from Mary Cotton to Post Road editors re the contents of Post Road 9
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Edwards Brothers printers re printing Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Copyright discussion via email with Margot Schlipp from Quarterly West, Rie Fortenberry from The Mississippi Review, Elissa Schappell at Tin House, Brigid Hughes at The Paris Review, Rebecca Wolff at Fence, and Joanna Yas at Open City re copyediting procedures
The Mississippi Review
Schappell, Elissa
Hughes, Brigid
Wolff, Rebecca
Yas, Joanna
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Pro Bono invoiced from Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault re Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Associated Writing Program conference in Chicago, including: AWP conference bulletin, work schedule for Post Road table, email to Josephine Bergin re signage for Post Road table, and registration forms
Bergin, Josephine
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email announcement from Victoria Clausi to the Bennington community re the release party for Post Road 9 on Sat, Dec 4 at The Attic Bar in Newton Centre
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Victoria Clausi re Post Road at the MFA program’s 10th anniversary residency
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Susan Breen, Mary Cotton, and Jennifer Lawson, Esq at Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault re the use of copyrights held by the Walt Disney Company by an artist in the art section for Post Road 9.
Cotton, Mary
Breen, Susan
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email to editors re IRS’s approval of Post Road’s nonprofit status; incl email exchange with Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email to Eric Tyrone McLeod re a request to reprint “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” from Post Road in a St. Martin’s Press textbook
McLeod, Eric Tyrone
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault re trademarking Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Copy of IRS letter granting Post Road nonprofit status
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown re a Post Road party at FAWC on July 24; incl correspondence with party sponsors Triple 8 Distillery and Brooklyn Brewery.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Mary Cotton email to Post Road editors with a recap of AWP in Chicago + email to Post Road editors re Post Road’s registration for AWP 2005 in Vancouver
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Rector, Liam
Post Road Magazine
June: Alden, NY
O the Places I've Lived!
Bananarama interview with Attitude Magazine with JDC mention
We're So Famous: A Novel
Ellis, Bret Easton
Publishers Weekly
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Literary Journey
Invitation to book party for Misfortune: A Novel by Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding)
Stace, Wesley (aka John Wesley Harding)
Bennington College
Manuscript – Vernon Downs – novel, pgs 1-130. First draft. Annotated by Mary Cotton.
Cotton, Mary
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence with Richard Eoin Nash at Softskull Press re A Complete Gentleman. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
World Gone Water: A Novel
Ellis, Bret Easton
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Misc Adventures
Cotton, Mary
Bennington College
Post Road Magazine
Itinerary and directions for Clarke/Cotton honeymoon through Canada to Nova Scotia, July 25-Aug 4
Cotton, Mary
Correspondence – Tom Perrotta re Best American Short Stories
Perrotta, Tom
Post Road Magazine
Misc Adventures
Manuscript – “The Oswald Sightings” – Short story. Handwritten draft, pages 1-41. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Literary Journey
Article from Gawker.com re Vernon Downs titled “Bret Easton Ellis: When Does Stalking Become Art?” dated May 17, 2005 (+)
Ellis, Bret Easton
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Correspondence – Kelly Thomas at Mockingbird Pictures re We’re So Famous
Spicer, Nick
We're So Famous: A Novel
Ellis, Bret Easton
2006 Novel and Short Story Writers Market featuring interview with JDC and Mary Cotton for article titled “The Lowdown on Low-Residency MFA Programs.”
Cotton, Mary
Literary Journey
Various correspondence re untitled John Hughes anthology – Simon & Schuster
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Correspondence – Karen Braziller at Persea Books re Garden Lakes
Braziller, Karen
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Declining letter from A Public Space re Vernon Downs (novella)
Vernon Downs: A Novel
JDC contract with Emerson College dated 12.01.05 re teaching Advanced Fiction (WP311E) and Advanced Personal Essay (WP316), Spring 2006
Emerson College
Correspondence with Tamar Brazis at Abrams Books re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Vox Pop generated uncorrected galley of Vernon Downs by JDC (+)
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Literary Journey
Correspondence with Constance McCashin re We’re So Famous screenplay
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bennington College
JDC contract with Emerson College dated 07.01.05 to teach Intro to Fiction, Fall 2005
Emerson College
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Wylie Agency re “Twenty Questions with David Mamet“; incl copy of Mar 28 contract
Mamet, David
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Confidential solicitations to potential institutional homes for Post Road: University of Arizona Poetry Center, Alan Davis at New Rivers Press at Minnesota State University, Gotham Writers’ Workshop in NYC, Liam Rector and Victoria Clausi at Bennington College, and Steven Cramer at Lesley University
Post Road Magazine
University of Arizona
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Victoria Clausi and Liam Rector re various Post Road listings in Bennington MFA program newsletters
Rector, Liam
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with JT Leroy re a recommendation for Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road Ambassadorship Program in Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto, Minneapolis, Atlanta, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle incl listing from Willamette Week for Portland Post Road party
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re adding Lissa Warren and Nicolette Nicola as poetry editors
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email exchange with Kathy Lasker re quote for printing Post Road on demand
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email exchange with Ingram Periodicals re creating Post Road Books
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Steven Cramer at Lesley University re a partnership with Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re finding a new copyeditor
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re trademarking Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re release parties for Post Road 10: Sat, Apr 30 at Middlesex Lounge in Boston and Thu, May 26 at KGB Bar in NYC; incl Boston Globe mention of Middlesex Lounge party.
KGB Bar
Post Road Magazine
KGB Bar
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road raffling off manuscript evaluations by Robert Pinsky, Amy Hempel and Sven Birkerts; incl copy of May/June 2005 issue of Poets & Writers featuring classified ad for raffle
Birkerts, Sven
Hempel, Amy
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Middlesex Lounge re Post Road reading series
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Mary Cotton letter to Neal Pollack asking him and his band to perform at the Post Road party at AWP Austin March 8-11, 2006; incl NP response.
Cotton, Mary
Pollack, Neal
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Various permissions requests to reprint “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” by Eric Tyrone McLeod from University Missouri-Columbia and Boston College
McLeod, Eric Tyrone
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Tim Bell at the University of Arizona Poetry Center re organizing the Post Road archives warehoused at the Poetry Center while in Tucson
Post Road Magazine
University of Arizona
Post Road Magazine – Program for May 14-15 Muse and the Marketplace, hosted by Grub Street, including Post Road table sign and copy of Grub Street’s Free Press
Post Road Magazine