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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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?”)

Correspondence – Mary Cotton

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Letter from Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County acknowledging receipt of donation

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Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Garden Lakes

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Correspondence with Justin Manask at Gotler Associates re Garden Lakes

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Manuscript – Garden Lakes – Novel.  Typed, pgs 1-386.  Annotated by JDC.

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Correspondence with Webster Younce at Picador USA re Garden Lakes

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Correspondence with Coates Bateman at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday re Garden Lakes

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Correspondence with Brendan Cahill at Gotham Books/Penguin Putnam re Garden Lakes

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Correspondence with William S. Rose, Jr. re The Rose Literary Agency representing Garden Lakes

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Outline for Garden Lakes; incl two disks and various outlining materials.

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Grub Street to Michael Rosovsky re appearing on a panel at the Muse and the Marketplace representing Post Road; incl flyer poster.

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Post Road Magazine – Observer piece entitled “Eggers v the establishment” incl mention of Post Road by Rick Moody; incl email exchange with RM about the mention.

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Welcome packet from the University of Massachusetts at Boston

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchanges with Mike Neff re Post Road and Web del Sol; incl Poets & Writers article on Web del Sol with mention of Post Road.

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Ricco Siasoco, David Ryan, and Cat Parnell re the Post Road website

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Kristina Lucenko re Rick Barthelme assigning Post Road in his class at Univ of Mississippi

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between Cat Parnell and Randi Triant re Testa Horowitz and Thieboult taking on Post Road as a pro bono client re becoming a 501c(3)

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Aaron Welborn, managing editor of Black Warrior Review praising Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Cat Parnell re Post Road’s FTP site

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Ricco Siasoco re creation of email addresses for Post Road editors

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Cat Parnell and editors re Cat’s leaving the magazine

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Post Road Magazine – Email re Askold Melnyczuk’s invitation to Cat Parnell to attend panel at UMass Boston

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Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to Cat Parnell re change in copyediting procedure

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Post Road Magazine – Email to JDC from Askold Melnyczuk forwarded through Harold Ober re AM acknowledgement in Post Road 6

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Post Road Magazine – Email to Josephine Bergin re Post Road 7 production schedule

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Post Road Magazine – Email to Hillary Chute from Post Road contributor Eric Tyrone McLeod thanking her for editing his piece “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” for length for Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Robert Lopez re being contacted by an agent via his story “Scar” in Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Victoria Clausi re a Post Road event at the 10th anniversary residency; incl July 31 email from Liam Rector, Priscilla Hodgkins, and Victoria about the 10th anniversary of the program.

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Pete Hausler re finding Post Road in the Union Square Barnes and Noble in NYC

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Robert Atwan, series editor for Best American Essays, re “The Shack of Art and Healing” by Oona Hyla Patrick being listed as a Notable Essay of 2003; incl Atwan’s invitation for Pete Hausler to represent Post Road at the Blue Hills Writing Institute.

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Post Road Magazine – Various email exchanges with fiction and poetry and nonfiction editors re instituting electronic submissions

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to editors announcing Josephine Bergin as Etcetera editor, replacing JDC

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Post Road Magazine – October 2003 invitation from Pushcart Press to nominate pieces from Post Road; incl Post Road’s nominations: “Animal Hater” by Samuel Ligon, “Since It’s You” by Peter Brown, “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” by Eric Tyrone McLeod, “The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea” by Larry O’Connor, “Self Portrait” by Tracy K. Smith, and “A Confederacy” by David Daniel.

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Post Road Magazine – Email with updated editor contact info, incl Marcus McGraw as nonfiction editor.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Denis Woychuk, owner of KGB Bar in NYC, re a proposed merger between Post Road and KGB; incl corr re the Post Road party on Dec 11 to celebrate the release of Post Road 7.

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Grub Street re Mike Rosovsky appearing in their master fiction class on Post Road’s behalf

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Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Alden Jones re Post Road honors and contributors to date

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Post Road Magazine – Email to Joanna Yas, editor of Open City Magazine, re a joint Post Road/Open City event in Boston and New York

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Post Road Magazine – re Cheryl Reed as Post Road managing editor (Sept-Nov)

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Brian Kimberling re Post Road’s inclusion in The Writer’s Directory of Short Fiction and Poetry Publications

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Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books, mentioning the Oct 18 party at The Attic in Newton Centre to celebrate the release of Post Road 7.

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Post Road Magazine – Postcard for independent bookstores for inclusion in a complimentary copy of Post Road 7, distributed by Booksense.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Vincent Standley at 3rd Bed re a joint Post Road/3rd Bed event

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Jennifer White at Bennington to JDC and Mike Rosovsky re an interview for a piece on the 10th anniversary of the MFA program for the alumni magazine; incl copy of finished article published Spring/Summer 2004.

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Post Road Magazine – Email from McSweeney’s re a request to Dave Eggers for a recommendation

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Post Road Magazine – Email to Josephine Bergin re production of Post Road 8 and Mary Cotton stepping in for Cheryl Reed as managing editor

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Post Road Magazine – Email to Jeff Marshall at The Paradise re a multi-lit mag party

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Tom Perrotta re “Twenty Questions” for Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Victoria Clausi at Bennington re Post Road’s search for a new managing editor

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Brother Tom Murphy re using his index of The Great Gatsby in the Etcetera section of Post Road 6

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Post Road Magazine – Updated Editor Contact Info, including addition of Mary Cotton

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with B. Lee Hope re Post Road panel at Stonecoast MFA program, with Mike Rosovsky; incl panel outline.

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Post Road Magazine – Email to David Ryan and Sue Breen and Hillary Chute re Post Road meeting at AWP Baltimore, including agenda.

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Testa Horowitz and Thieboult re Post Road’s 501c(3) application

2003

Post Road Magazine – Feb 2003 copy of Harper’s Magazine featuring “Behold the Couch” by Will Eno, reprinted from Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence re Recommendations for Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Email correspondence with Hignell re the printing of Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Letter to Tim Huggins from Barry Gifford re Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Copy of Post Road’s application to the IRS for 501c(3) status

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Post Road Magazine – Fax exchange with Ed Kane’s Water Taxi in Baltimore re JDC’s request to hire a ferry for the Post Road party at AWP

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Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books, re Associated Writing Program conference in Baltimore

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Post Road Magazine – Letter from Edward Hoagland re Post Road party

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Post Road Magazine – Various procedural emails for Mary Cotton re Post Road production

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road’s Board of Directors

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Post Road Magazine – Ingram Periodicals order for Post Road; Bernhard DeBoer distribution list.

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Email from Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly soliciting comment re J.D. Salinger (+)

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Correspondence with Ryan Harbage at Simon & Schuster re proposal for oral history of the films of John Hughes

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Correspondence with Justin Manask re proposal for television series based on We’re So Famous

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Bennington – Correspondence with Victoria Clausi and Cat Parnell re 10th Anniversary and Post Road

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Correspondence with Tamar Brazis re Garden Lakes

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Correspondence with Jim Schiff at Time Warner Books re Scavengers

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Bloomsbury – Manuscript – We’re So Famous – Screenplay.  Typed, pgs 1-86

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Correspondence with Tom Perrotta re We’re So Famous screenplay

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Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Garden Lakes

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Correspondence with Tom Perrotta re “Twenty Questions” feature for Post Road

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Correspondence with Brooke Ehrlich at Rabineau Wachter re We’re So Famous screenplay

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Emerson College – Contract to teach Advanced Creative Writing, Spring 2004

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Correspondence with Denise Flaim at New York Newsday re Dale Peck article

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Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Panagiotis Gianopoulos re Garden Lakes

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Correspondence with Ryan Harbage re oral history of the films of John Hughes

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Research material for short story “Big Noise” by JDC (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

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Correspondence re oral history of films of John Hughes

2004

Bloomsbury – JDC correspondence with Publishers Weekly re review of We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – Shout Magazine review of We’re So Famous in April 2001 issue

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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Email from Panagiotis Gianopoulos re Publishers Weekly

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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous by Lesley Allen

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Bloomsbury – Reviews of We’re So Famous from various college newspapers

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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous by Bernard Carpinter

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Bloomsbury – Inside.com article titled “Author Gives a Bad Review to PW Review,” re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous + Time Magazine.com article titled “Poor Sport” re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – Book Review Digest summary of We’re So Famous. August 2001.

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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Arizona State University State Press Magazine profile of JDC.  April 19, 2001.

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Bloomsbury – We’re So FamousWest Valley View article re royalty donation to Literary Volunteers of Maricopa County.  May 23, 2001.

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Bloomsbury – Sunday Herald (Glasgow) review of We’re So Famous, dated June 24, 2001

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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in Big Issue, June 25, 2001

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Bloomsbury – Authors on the Web article re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – Library Journal articled titled “Don’t Kill the Reviewer” by Francine Fialkoff re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous

2001

Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to Bill Henderson at Pushcart re Post Road’s Pushcart Nominations

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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in Cleo, dated September 2001

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Larry Dark, series editor of O. Henry Prize Stories re Post Road

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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in NW, dated September 3, 2001

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Bloomsbury – Binder re We're So Famous college reading tour with Fuzzy. Includes Fuzzy CD.

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Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to IPD re distribution

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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in Attitude Magazine, dated July 2001

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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – audio of appearance on Ted Simons’s morning show on MIX 96.9 to promote royalty donation.  Phoenix, AZ.

2001

Agented rejections for Scavengers from HarperCollins and Warner Books

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Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to Katrina Kenison at Best American Short Stories encl with Post Road 3

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence from A.E. Hotchner and Edward Hoagland re writing a recommendation for Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Subscription postcards and subscription envelope mailers

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Post Road Magazine – Oct 23 Lizard Watch, the newsletter for Newtonville Books, incl mention of NVB’s sponsoring a party at Audubon Circle in Boston on November 3 for the release of Post Road 3; incl Tim Huggins Post Road business card + Alden Jones Post Road business card

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19816 N. 49th Drive, Glendale, AZ

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Postcard from Harold Ober Associates acknowledging receipt of Standard Deviation story collection by JDC

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Post Road Magazine – Letter from Bill Henderson at Pushcart Press re the selection of “Cock Robin” by Miranda Field from PR for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize XXVII; incl contract signed by JDC on behalf of Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – June 11 Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books incl mention of release of Post Road 4

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchanges between JDC, David Ryan, Mike Rosovsky, Tim Huggins, Sven Birkerts and Eric Grunwald of AGNI, Christina Thompson and Erika Namaka from The Harvard Review re the Boston Publishers Consortium; incl BPC rate sheet.

2002

Draft and research material for Garden Lakes. Binder. incl hand-drawn map of Garden Lakes

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Manuscript – Garden Lakes – Novel.  First draft.  Typed, pgs 1-267.  Annotated by JDC.

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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Response to Contemporary Authors questionnaire

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Larry Dark, series editor for O. Henry Prize Stories announcing his retirement from the series and the short-listing of “White Square” by Brian Evenson from Post Road 3 and “Homestay” by Rachel Sherman from Post Road 2 for the 2002 volume

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Victoria Clausi re Post Road panel at the Bennington summer residency; incl panel description.

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Post Road Magazine – October call for nominations for Pushcart Prize XXVII

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Tim Huggins re the idea of Post Road reprinting out-of-print books

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between Barry Gifford and JDC re the copyright in BG’s recommendation

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Jonathan Lethem re JDC interview of JL for Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Kevin Canty re writing a recommendation

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Laura Furman introducing her as the new series editor for O. Henry Prize Stories

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Post Road Magazine – Sept 17 Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books, announcing the release of Post Road 5 and a release party on Oct 26 at Audubon Circle Bar & Grill

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence between JDC and Cat Parnell re the operation of Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to Karen Braziller at Persea Books re distributing Post Road in the wake of DeBoer losing its chain affiliation

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Mike Rosovsky announcing Post Road’s selection as a “Hot Read” in Boston Phoenix‘s magazine Stuff at Night; incl printout of “Hot 100” list.

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Hignell Book Printers re printing Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road website with Ricco Siasoco

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Post Road Magazine – Letter from JDC to Fiona McCrae at Graywolf Books re a partnership to publish and distribute Post Road; incl response from FM.

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Catherine Parnell about becoming Post Road’s managing editor; incl CP’s Post Road business card.

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Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC re the idea of a multi-lit mag release party; incl response from M.T. Anderson from 3rd Bed

2002

Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence regarding Post Road’s inclusion in Booksense’s White Box Program

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from Cat Parnell to Post Road editors re upcoming Associated Writing Program conference in Baltimore, including schedule for working the Post Road/Salamander table at AWP.

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Professor Zoran Kuzmanovich at Davidson College re the use of “Lolita A-Z” in Post Road 5

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Post Road Magazine – Postcard invites for Post Road 5 release party on Sat, Oct 26 at Audubon Circle Restaurant and Bar in Boston; incl flyer.

2002

“At the end of the semester, I often give away literary journals to my students–I want them to know about the range of choices and part of my job is to help show them this world. But I can’t give away Post Road! I have all the issues in my office and every semester I go over the stack to try to pick one to give up and I just can’t do it. Each issue is just packed with goodness and all I can do is show my copies to my students and then protectively snatch them back!” — Aimee Bender

2002

Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence and contract relating to Post Road being distributed by Ingram Periodicals

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from Elizabeth Giddens at Harper’s Magazine re reprinting “Behold the Couch, in Sorrow, Unemployed” by Will Eno from Post Road; incl photocopy of Table of Contents and reprinted piece from Feb 2003 issue of Harper’s.

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Post Road Magazine – Pushcart Prize nominations as voted by the editors:  “Last Last Last” by Nicholas Montenarano, “A Huge, Old Radio” by Ander Monson, “Digression: Listerine: The Life and Opinions of Laurence Sterne” by John Wesley Harding, “Hip Hop High: Mainstream Black Culture in the White Suburbs” by Lauren Sandler, “How to Get the Love You Want” by Sarah Fox, and “What They Talked About and What They Said” by John Ruff

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Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to Mike Rosovsky re the history of Post Road for Grub Street panel

2002

“I trumpet Post Road not out of kindness but out of the purely selfish pleasure I take in a frisky, alert, independent magazine whose words and images spring off the page and sometimes turn a somersault or two before they stick their landings in my brain. I also admire the magazine’s artistic promiscuity in embracing whatever’s good wherever it comes from however it works and whomever it’s by.” — Walter Kirn

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“The editors’ enthusiasm is palpable; they consistently provide a lively home for writing worth reading.” — Amy Hempel

2002

Post Road is the little magazine so many writers dream of when they start out, but have trouble finding when they grow up. It’s like those Paris-based publications that discovered Ezra Eliot or TS Pound or someone. But it’s not; it’s based here, it publishes fresh exciting talent, and it’s helping keep the indie lit scene alive in America.” — Darin Strauss

2002

Post Road, from its inception, has been an exotic and intelligent literary treat. I always like to see what they come up with each issue, and they never fail to surprise, entertain, and enlighten.” — Jonathan Ames

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“I always read Post Road with great enthusiasm. In its stealthy, unassuming way, it has become one of the most reliable and ambitious literary magazines in America.”– Rick Moody

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Post Road is one of the most interesting and exciting literary magazines out there. If you care about reading and writing, do yourself a favor and check it out.”–Tom Perrotta

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Post Road has the goods. I not only fall on them and read them like hot news when they come in the door, I keep them lined up on my shelf like little books, because that’s what they are.”– Jonathan Lethem

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Post Road maps the way to the freshest and funkiest literary territories. As the group The Postal Service does for music, Post Road fuses eclectic elements into something whole and wholly new.” – Elizabeth Searle

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“Magazines like Post Road are carrying more and more of the load when it comes to free thinking and dissent. And for that we all should be bottomlessly grateful. — Jim Shepard

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Post Road is a jewel in a bucket of stones.” — Barry Gifford

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Various train schedules, airline tickets, Eurail passes, etc., for Clarke Brothers’ European vacation.

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Correspondence – Alden Jones

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