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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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!
Early Years
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
Kalispell, MT
Early Years
Kalispell, MT
Elrod Elementary – Kalispell, MT
Early Years
Kalispell, MT
Elrod Elementary – Kalispell, MT
Early Years
Kalispell, MT
Early Years
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
Article from Rapid City, S.D. newsmagazine re Miss Kephart’s 5th grade class trip to the courthouse; including photo (+)
Rapid City, SD
Knollwood Heights Elementary School – Rapid City, SD
Early Years
O the Places I've Lived!
Rapid City, SD
Knollwood Heights Elementary School – Rapid City, SD
Early Years
O the Places I've Lived!
Rapid City, SD
Knollwood Heights Elementary School – Rapid City, SD
Early Years
Rapid City, SD
North Junior High School - Rapid City, SD
Adolescence
Early Writing
U.S. Senator Larry Pressler’s newsletter dated December 1983 re article about visiting Mrs. Degner’s 6th grade class + Rapid City Journal article
Rapid City, SD
Knollwood Heights Elementary School – Rapid City, SD
Pressler, Larry
Early Years
Rapid City, SD
Knollwood Heights Elementary School – Rapid City, SD
Early Years
Early Writing
Rapid City, SD
North Junior High School - Rapid City, SD
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Early Writing
Adolescence
Early Years
O the Places I've Lived!
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Pete’s Fish and Chips menu + JDC food handler’s card (+)
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Misc. re: Fowler 8th grade trip to Disneyland, including order sheet for Tom Wat products sold to earn money for trip. (+)
Phoenix, AZ
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Tolleson Union High School – Tolleson, AZ
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phantasm lyrics for original songs: ‘Too Hot to Handle”; “(You Shoot ‘Em) One by One”; “Close Your Eyes”; “I Can’t Get Over You”; “Touch Me”; “Will You Think of Me?”; “You Want It…You Got It”; “Fade Away”; “When She Says No”; “Painless” (+)
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Phantasm (air band)
Adolescence
Early Writing
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Phantasm (air band)
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Early Writing
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
O the Places I've Lived!
Fowler Elementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Tolleson Union High School – Tolleson, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Tolleson Union High School – Tolleson, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Adolescence
Early Writing
Early Writing
Phoenix, AZ
Tolleson Union High School – Tolleson, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Misc re: Eric Hamelin concert at Tolleson Union High School organized as a sophomore class fundraiser by JDC: program + Hamelin press + JDC admin
Phoenix, AZ
Tolleson Union High School – Tolleson, AZ
Hamelin, Eric (Liberace’s protégé)
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Concert ticket: U2 at Sun Devil Stadium, Sat, Dec 19 & Sun, Dec 20, filming for Rattle and Hum documentary (+)
Phoenix, AZ
U2
Adolescence
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis incl cover for Less Than Zero; New York Magazine article on by Elizabeth Wurtzel; Vanity Fair profile of Judd Nelson by; Newsweek review of The Rules of Attraction by David Lehman.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Program for Sunday Service at North Phoenix Baptist Church re: Alice Cooper’s daughter’s baptism (+)
Phoenix, AZ
Cooper, Alice
Adolescence
Ellis, Bret Easton
Phoenix, AZ
Tolleson Union High School – Tolleson, AZ
Adolescence
O the Places I've Lived!
Tolleson Union High School – Tolleson, AZ
Adolescence
Mormon dance guest pass for Jaime Clarke
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Brophy College Preparatory – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Correspondence re volunteering at Children’s Crisis Nursery to fulfill Christian Service requirement at Brophy College Preparatory
Phoenix, AZ
Brophy College Preparatory – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
O the Places I've Lived!
Phoenix, AZ
Brophy College Preparatory – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Brophy College Preparatory – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Phoenix, AZ
Brophy College Preparatory – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Early Writing
Manuscript – “Winners Circle.” Short Story. Typed, pgs 1-13.
Early Writing
Early Writing
Phoenix, AZ
Brophy College Preparatory – Phoenix, AZ
Adolescence
Manuscript – “Runaround.” Short Story. Typed, pgs 1-4.
Early Writing
Manuscript – “A Girl and Her Dog.” Short Story. Typed, pgs 1-6.
Early Writing
Manuscript – “Full Circle.” Novel. Typed, pgs 1-17.
Early Writing
Early Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
(Fall): 1230 E. Spence Ave., Tempe, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
Phoenix, AZ
Keating, Jr., Charles H.
Manuscript – “Pied Piper of Hate.” Television spec script for 21 Jump Street. First draft dated March 8, 1990. Typed, pgs 1-22.
Early Writing
Correspondence – Stuart M. Kaminsky re JDC spec script for 21 Jump Street
Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Early Writing
Misc. re: Bret Easton Ellis incl Publishers Weekly editorial titled “Publisher Responsibility and Bret Easton Ellis” + Publishers Weekly coverage + Newsweek article titled “The Killing of a Gory Novel” + Time Magazine article titled “A Revolting Development” + article by Carol Iannone titled “PC & the Ellis Affair” + Time Magazine short titled, “Sherman McCoy, Where Are You?” + New York Magazine article titled “Psycho Drama” + author bio from Contemporary Authors + Rolling Stone article by BEE re Bennington.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Publishers Weekly
Phoenix, AZ
Keating, Jr., Charles H.
Spring: 830 W. 5th Ave., Tempe, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
June: 4236 N. 103rd Ave, #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
Summer + Fall: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #67, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
Keating, Jr., Charles H.
Arizona State University
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis including color copy of American Psycho cover + Rolling Stone article about American Psycho + Newsweek article titled “Confessions of a Serial Killer” + Vanity Fair article titled “Children of the Pied Piper” by Norman Mailer + Publishers Weekly article re Vintage edition of American Psycho + New York Times Book Review review of American Psycho by Roger Rosenblatt titled “Snuff This Book! Will Bret Easton Ellis Get Away With Murder?”
Ellis, Bret Easton
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – Sections for novel version of A Complete Gentleman. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – Bennington – January 1996 residency workshop – “This Way Is Over.” (Rewrite of “Monthly Payments.”) Short story. Typed, pgs 1-17. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Renters.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-18. Annotated by Amy Hempel. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “My Literary Apprenticeship.” Essay. Typed, pgs 1-20. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Typical by Padgett Powell.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Ice at the Bottom of the World by Mark Richard.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “An Amateur’s Guide to Night by Mary Robison.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – On Sharon Olds’s poetry.
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Orbit from The Spectacle of the Body by Noy Holland.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – On Steps by Jerzy Kosinski, Speedboat by Renata Adler, and Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick.
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ray by Barry Hannah.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “My Hard Bargain by Walter Kirn.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – June 1996 Workshop. “Renters.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-15. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – June 1996 Workshop. “Renters.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-15. Annotated by Maria Flook. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Flook, Maria
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Signaling.” (Rewrite of “Renters.”) Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Stardust, 7-Eleven, Route 57, A&W, And So Forth by Patricia Lear.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons.”
Bennington College
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Into the Great Wide Open by Kevin Canty.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Lights, Camera, Darkness.” (Later titles: “Screen Test” + “This, Too Stars You”) Short story. Typed, pgs 1-13. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Andrew Turnball.”
Bennington College
Letter dated October 22, 1996 from the Mississippi Review accepting “We’re So Famous” for publication. (+)
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Manuscript – Bennington – “Ex-Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-17. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Rock Springs by Richard Ford.”
Bennington College
Stoneboy Press
Manuscript – Bennington – “What You’ll Find When the Tide Comes In.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – “We’re So Famous.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-7. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
We're So Famous: A Novel
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
October 24, 1996 contract with the Mississippi Review for the publication of “We’re So Famous”
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Morvern Callar by Alan Warner.”
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Stoneboy Press
We're So Famous: A Novel
October 31, 1996 letter from the Mississippi Review with page proofs for “We’re So Famous”
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, edited by JDC.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – JDC Graduate Lecture. w/letter from Bret Easton Ellis.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Bennington – Final thesis (Standard Deviation) review by Betsy Cox
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Standard Deviation
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, edited by BEE.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Bennington – Final thesis (Standard Deviation) second review by Bob Shacochis
Shacochis, Bob
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Standard Deviation
Robison, Mary
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Manuscript – Bennington – JDC Graduate Lecture. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, conducted in NYC in November 1996. Two microcassette tapes and transcript of interview.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
New York City
Literary Journey
AGNI Magazine
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
New York City
Literary Journey
Flook, Maria
Pushcart Prize
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Correspondence – Maria Flook
Flook, Maria
Correspondence – Frederick Barthelme
Barthelme, Frederick
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Literary Journey
Bennington College
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Manuscript – Bennington – Final version of JDC graduate lecture. Typed, pgs 1-16.
Bennington College
Correspondence – Pete Hausler (+)
Hausler, Pete
New York City
Literary Journey
Proposed table of contents for A Complete Gentleman (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman. Novel. First draft. Typed, pgs 1-136. Annotated by Bret Easton Ellis. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman. Novel. Second draft. Typed, pgs 1-126. Annotated by Bret Easton Ellis. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – “Wagering.” Short Story. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Literary Journey
Literary Journey
Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman. Novel. Final draft. Typed, pgs 1-175. Annotated by JDC. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – undated draft of A Complete Gentleman. Novel. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
Jan: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
June-Aug: 390 Westford Rd., Concord, MA
O the Places I've Lived!
Sept: Astoria, Queens
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
McKnight, Reginald
Rector, Liam
Cox, Betsy
Hempel, Amy
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
New York City
Correspondence – Rick Moody
Moody, Rick
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
New York City
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Correspondence – Maria Flook
Flook, Maria