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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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?”)
Publishers Weekly
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Audio of Boston Book Festival panel with JDC, Celeste Ng, Leah Hager Cohen, and Jessica Keener on Sat, Oct 25; incl BBF 2014 program guide (+)
Cohen, Leah Hager
Ng, Celeste
Keener, Jessica
Boston Book Festival
Vernon Downs: A Novel
English Kills review of Center for Fiction event with JDC and Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Center for Fiction
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Boston Book Festival
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Arizona State University
Vernon Downs: A Novel
WORD Bookstore newsletter featuring listing for JDC Vernon Downs reading on June 10
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Center for Fiction newsletter re JDC reading and discussion of Vernon Downs with Charles Bock; incl CFF Spring 2014 Program Guide featuring event + contract for appearance
Bock, Charles
Center for Fiction
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Rumpus listing of Notable April readings in NYC incl JDC
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Amazon.com
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Schrank, Ben
Vernon Downs: A Novel
BookExpo, NYC. – Mary Cotton with Jason Segel.
Cotton, Mary
Segel, Jason
Newtonville Books
Saunders, George
Bound galley – World Gone Water by JDC
World Gone Water: A Novel
Cooper, Chris
Kaysen, Susanna
Messud, Claire
Newtonville Books
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Finished copy – Vernon Downs by JDC
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Various relating to JDC May 4 Grub Street Muse and the Marketplace panel entitled “My First Time” with Owen King and Kelly Braffet
King, Owen
Braffet, Kelly
Literary Journey
Keating, Jr., Charles H.
Phoenix, AZ
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Finished Copy – Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists edited by Hillary Chute; incl invitation to book party
Chute, Hillary
Brooklyn Book Festival program guide featuring JDC panel with Joshua Ferris and Andre Dubus III, moderated by Cary Barbor; incl invitation to festival party + thank you note from Cary Barbor
Brooklyn Book Festival
Dubus III, Andre
Ferris, Joshua
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Book trailer for Vernon Downs, narrated by Academy award-winning actor Chris Cooper featuring Aimee Bender, Elisa Albert, Atul Gawande, Ramona Ausubel, Alison Bechdel, Ben Marcus, Charles Bock, Christopher Boucher, Mark Conway, T Cooper, Elizabeth Crane, Michael Dahlie, Tanya Donelly, Jennifer duBois, James Fuerst, Julia Glass, Lev Grossman, Holly LeCraw, James Scott, Leslie Jamison, Joanna Hershon, Jonathan Wilson, Owen King, Allison Lynn, Amy MacKinnon, Gregory Maguire, Rebecca Makkai, Margot Livesey, Jill McCorkle, Paul Harding, Marianne Leone, Paul Yoon, Ivy Pochoda, Henriette Power, Jamie Quatro, Nelly Reifler, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Jim Shepard, Karen Shepard, Amy Sohn, Anna Solomon, Jessica Treadway, Dawn Tripp, Laura van den Berg, Wesley Stace, Joan Wickersham, Mary-Beth Hughes, Mary Sullivan, Myla Goldberg, Amy Hempel, Adam Wilson, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Jonathan Ames, Sam Lipsyte, David James Poissant, Tom Perrotta, and Charles Yu
Schrank, Ben
Searle, Elizabeth
Shepard, Jim
Shepard, Karen
Sohn, Amy
Solomon, Anna
Treadway, Jessica
Tripp, Dawn
van den Berg, Laura
Stace, Wesley (aka John Wesley Harding)
Wickersham, Joan
Hughes, Mary-Beth
Sullivan, Mary
Goldberg, Myla
Hempel, Amy
Wilson, Adam
Kirshenbaum, Binnie
Ames, Jonathan
Lipsyte, Sam
Poissant, David James
Perrotta, Tom
Yu, Charles
Laziridis, Henriette
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Tom Perrotta blurb for Vernon Downs:
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Correspondence – Ig Publishing re Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC (formerly What I Wanted to Be + American Kaleidoscope + Poor Man’s Gatsby)
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
J. Robert Lennon blurb for World Gone Water: “This unsettling novel ponders human morality and sexuality, and the murky interplay between the two. Charlie Martens is a compelling antihero with a voice that can turn on a dime, from shrugging naiveté to chilling frankness. World Gone Water is a candid, often startling portrait of an unconventional life.”
Lennon, J. Robert
World Gone Water: A Novel
Correspondence – JDC editing Overcompensating Autodidact (More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers) by Jonathan Lethem
Lethem, Jonathan
Correspondence – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence – Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence – World Gone Water/US (Roundabout Press)
World Gone Water: A Novel
Adrienne Miller blurb for World Gone Water: “Funny and surprising, World Gone Water is terrific fun to read and, as a spectacle of bad behavior, pretty terrifying to contemplate.”
Miller, Adrienne
World Gone Water: A Novel
Tony D’Souza blurb for World Gone Water: “Jaime Clarke’s World Gone Water is so fresh and daring, a necessary book, a barbaric yawp that revels in its taboo: the sexual and emotional desires of today’s hetero young man. Clarke is a sure and sensitive writer, his lines are clean and carry us right to the tender heart of his lovelorn hero, Charlie Martens. This is the book Hemingway and Kerouac would want to read. It’s the sort of honesty in this climate that many of us aren’t brave enough to write.”
D'Souza, Tony
World Gone Water: A Novel
Matt Bell blurb for World Gone Water: “Charlie Martens is my favorite kind of narrator, an obsessive yearner whose commitment to his worldview is so overwhelming that the distance between his words and the reader’s usual thinking gets clouded fast. World Gone Water will draw you in, make you complicit, and finally leave you both discomfited and thrilled.”
Bell, Matt
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – Garden Lakes by JDC
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – “The Somner Affair: A Harold Ober Mystery” by JDC writing as J.B. West – Short story
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Amy Grace Loyd blurb for World Gone Water: “Charlie Martens will make you laugh. More, he’ll offend and shock you while making you laugh. Even trickier: he’ll somehow make you like him, root for him, despite yourself and despite him. This novel travels into the dark heart of male/female relations and yet there is tenderness, humanity, hope. Jaime Clarke rides what is a terribly fine line between hero and antihero. Read and be astounded.”
Loyd, Amy Grace
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC
The Last Novel Ever Published
Ausubel, Ramona
Bauer, Douglas
Bender, Aimee
Bender, Karen E.
Bezmozgis, David
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King, Owen
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Shepard, Jim
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Slater, Tracy
Tripp, Dawn
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Wilson, Jonathan
Newtonville Books
Manuscript – “The Salinger Principle” by JDC
Salinger, J.D.
Literary Journey
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Itinerary for May 22-24, 2015 wedding between Charles Bock and Leslie Jamison, incl ceremony program, thank you note, and postcard from honeymoon in Lisbon.
Bock, Charles
Jamison, Leslie
Misc Adventures
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Manuscript – Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle by JDC (published as an afterword in the Bloomsbury reissue of We’re So Famous)
We're So Famous: A Novel
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Boston Book Festival 2015 Program Guide (+)
Boston Book Festival
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Correspondence – World Gone Water/UK (Bloomsbury Reader)
World Gone Water: A Novel
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World Gone Water: A Novel
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Bloomsbury Reader galley for Garden Lakes
Bergin, Josephine
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
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The Believer
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Gawande, Atul
Ausubel, Ramona
Bechdel, Alison
Marcus, Ben
Bock, Charles
Boucher, Christopher
Conway, Mark
Cooper, T
Crane, Elizabeth
Dahlie, Michael
Donnelly, Tanya
duBois, Jennifer
Fuerst, James
Glass, Julia
Grossman, Lev
LeCraw, Holly
Scott, James
Jamison, Leslie
Hershon, Joanna
Wilson, Jonathan
King, Owen
Lynn, Allison
MacKinnon, Amy
Maguire, Gregory
Makkai, Rebecca
Livesey, Margot
McCorkle, Jill
Harding, Paul
Leone, Marianne
Yoon, Paul
Pochoda, Ivy
Power, Henriette
Quatro, Jamie
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Boston Globe “New England Literary News” piece on Newtonville Books mention in the novel Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
Newtonville Books
Largehearted Boy “Book Notes” feature on World Gone Water
Art Fuse listing of Newtonville Books reading with JDC and Laura van den Berg
van den Berg, Laura
World Gone Water: A Novel
Cotton, Mary
Literary Hub
Newtonville Books
Contract dated December 26, 2014 with Bloomsbury for publication of World Gone Water and Garden Lakes; incl Aug 26, 2015 amendment granting Bloomsbury World Rights in both titles.
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Finished copy – A Book of Uncommon Prayer, edited by Matthew Vollmer, featuring “For the Newly Minted Ph.D. in English Literature” by JDC; signed; incl Outpost 19 catalogue featuring anthology + listing for launch party at Housing Works bookstore on Tues, May 19
Vollmer, Matthew
Literary Journey
Boston Globe event listing for JDC event with Laura van den Berg at Newtonville Books for World Gone Water
van den Berg, Laura
World Gone Water: A Novel
Email from James Magnuson re his unpublished New York Times Book Review review of Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Sherman, Rachel
Newtonville Books
Literary Hub
Small Press Distribution bestseller list for November & December 2014 featuring Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Listing of Apr 12 World Gone Water reading at KGB with JDC and Jeffrey Rotter
KGB Bar
World Gone Water: A Novel
KGB Bar
Shelf Awareness including mention of World Gone Water book trailer narrated by Thora Birch
Birch, Thora
World Gone Water: A Novel
Literary Hub excerpt of World Gone Water
Literary Hub
World Gone Water: A Novel
Ausubel, Ramona
Bezmozgis, David
Bock, Charles
Brooklyn Rail
Casey, Maud
Clarke, Brock
Pittard, Hannah
Poissant, David James
Makkai, Rebecca
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
The Last Novel Ever Published
Grub Street Muse and the Marketplace conference bulletin ad for Newtonville Books featuring World Gone Water
World Gone Water: A Novel
Book trailer for World Gone Water, narrated by Thora Birch featuring Moon Unit Zappa, J. Robert Lennon, Maile Chapman, Frederick Barthelme, Andre Dubus III, Brock Clarke, Molly Antopol, Ed Park, David Bezmozgis, Jac Jemc, Shelly Oria, David Ryan, Nathaniel Rich, Hannah Pittard, Dennis Lehane, Katherine Hill, Victoria Redel, Gary Shteyngart, Scott Cheshire, Joseph Salvatore, Celeste Ng, Matthew Specktor, Kent Wascom, Vendela Vida, Josh Weil, Darin Strauss, and Alden Jones
Antopol, Molly
Barthelme, Frederick
Bezmozgis, David
Birch, Thora
Chapman, Maile
Cheshire, Scott
Clarke, Brock
Dubus III, Andre
Hill, Katherine
Jemc, Jac
Jones, Alden
Lehane, Dennis
Lennon, J. Robert
Ng, Celeste
Oria, Shelly
Park, Ed
Pittard, Hannah
Redel, Victoria
Rich, Nathaniel
Ryan, David
Salvatore, Joseph
Shteyngart, Gary
Specktor, Matthew
Strauss, Darin
Vida, Vendela
Wascom, Kent
Weil, Josh
Zappa, Moon Unit
World Gone Water: A Novel
Center for Fiction
Loyd, Amy Grace
World Gone Water: A Novel
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
The Believer posting about Vernon Downs book trailer narrated by Academy award-winning actor Chris Cooper featuring Aimee Bender, Elisa Albert, Atul Gawande, Ramona Ausubel, Alison Bechdel, Ben Marcus, Charles Bock, Christopher Boucher, Mark Conway, T Cooper, Elizabeth Crane, Michael Dahlie, Tanya Donelly, Jennifer duBois, James Fuerst, Julia Glass, Lev Grossman, Holly LeCraw, James Scott, Leslie Jamison, Joanna Hershon, Jonathan Wilson, Owen King, Allison Lynn, Amy MacKinnon, Gregory Maguire, Rebecca Makkai, Margot Livesey, Jill McCorkle, Paul Harding, Marianne Leone, Paul Yoon, Ivy Pochoda, Henriette Power, Jamie Quatro, Nelly Reifler, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Jim Shepard, Karen Shepard, Amy Sohn, Anna Solomon, Jessica Treadway, Dawn Tripp, Laura van den Berg, Wesley Stace, Joan Wickersham, Mary-Beth Hughes, Mary Sullivan, Myla Goldberg, Amy Hempel, Adam Wilson, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Jonathan Ames, Sam Lipsyte, David James Poissant, Tom Perrotta, and Charles Yu
Reifler, Nelly
Schrank, Ben
Searle, Elizabeth
Shepard, Jim
Shepard, Karen
Sohn, Amy
Solomon, Anna
Treadway, Jessica
Tripp, Dawn
van den Berg, Laura
Stace, Wesley (aka John Wesley Harding)
Wickersham, Joan
Hughes, Mary-Beth
Sullivan, Mary
Goldberg, Myla
Hempel, Amy
Wilson, Adam
Kirshenbaum, Binnie
Ames, Jonathan
Lipsyte, Sam
Poissant, David James
Perrotta, Tom
Yu, Charles
Lazaridis, Henriette
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Adrienne Miller blurb for World Gone Water:
Bloomsbury – Tony D’Souza blurb for World Gone Water:
Program and March 7 ticket for Tino Sehgal exhibit at the Guggenheim featuring Hillary Chute
Chute, Hillary
Misc Adventures
Boston Phoenix article re Barry Hannah tribute event at Newtonville Books; incl event program and Sven Birkerts’s letter re Bennington scholarship founding in BH’s name.
Birkerts, Sven
Newtonville Books
Paris News article re Post Road contributor Heather Hartley’s book party at Shakespeare and Co
Post Road Magazine
Boston Book Festival 2010 Program Guide, Oct 16. (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Boston Phoenix Fall Books Preview featuring Newtonville Books’s Small Press Saturday event
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Boston Globe “Shelf Life” article re opening Used Book Annex in former Lizard’s Tale
Newtonville Books
Amtrak maps for Lake Shore Limited + the Southwest Chief re train trip from Phoenix to Buffalo with Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
Misc Adventures
Newtonville Books
Boston Book Festival’s “One City, One Story” selection “The Smile on Happy Chang’s Face” by Tom Perrotta, from Post Road Magazine; incl October 8 article from BU Today titled “A Citywide Book Club.”
Perrotta, Tom
Boston Book Festival
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Dzanc Books re Post Road anthology No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine; incl contract.
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – December 1 Unanimous Written Consent of Directors re JDC and Tim Huggins resignation from Post Road, Inc, with David Ryan and Susan Breen elected as President and Treasurer respectively.
Ryan, David
Breen, Susan
Post Road Magazine
Fully-executed copies of permissions forms for No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (Dzanc)
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Fall 2009 article from Boston College Magazine titled “Post Road‘s New Address” re Post Road transition to Boston College
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Correspondence – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence – Boston Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton, and Jaime Clarke
Cotton, Mary
Lehane, Dennis
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Correspondence – Jonathan Lethem re The Ecstasy of Influence by JL
Lethem, Jonathan
Correspondence – American Kaleidoscope: A Novel by JDC
Literary Journey
Correspondence – Baum’s Bazaar
Baum's Bazaar
Correspondence – Talk Show anthology
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Manuscript – The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC, final draft
The Last Novel Ever Published
Correspondence – Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence – Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Correspondence – The Last Novel Ever Published
The Last Novel Ever Published
Manuscript – “Carl, Inc.” by JDC, short story published by Atticus Review. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Atticus Review
Literary Journey
Correspondence – No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Correspondence re: The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC, with contributions from Amanda Eyre Ward, Ben Schrank, Nathaniel Rich, Elizabeth Searle, Adam Langer, Heidi Julavits, Victor LaValle, Neil LaBute, Mary-Beth Hughes, Aimee Bender, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Joshua Furst, Ed Park, Samantha Hunt, Roxana Robinson, David Leavitt, Sam Lipsyte, Allison Lynn, and James Scott
The Last Novel Ever Published
University Press of Mississippi marketing plans dated June 27 for the hardcover edition of Conversations with Jonathan Lethem and plans dated October 3 for the paperback edition
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Manuscript – American Kaleidoscope : A Memoir by JDC, first draft
Literary Journey
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Manuscript – American Kaleidoscope : A Novel by JDC
Literary Journey
Boston Globe book section mention of Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Contract with Bennington College re panel and ice cream social for Post Road, including No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine, at June residency; incl JDC housing packet, parking pass, lunch card, and Williams Inn parking pass, and May 12 email newsletter re June residency.
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Fully-executed copies of permissions forms for Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
“The Word on the Street” by Jan Gardner, from the Boston Globe, mentioning publication of No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine; also copy of June 6 homepage for Bookforum mentioning publication of No Near Exit.
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Bock, Charles
Baum's Bazaar
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Spring/Summer ’11 University Press of Mississippi catalogue featuring paperback editions of Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Moody, Rick
Baum's Bazaar
Boston Phoenix article re after-party with Jonathan Lethem to celebrate Conversations with Jonathan Lethem at Charlie’s Kitchen in Harvard Square on Nov 11
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Searle, Elizabeth
Baum's Bazaar
World Class Faker by John Laprade (+)
Laprade, John
Press release from Little, Brown for The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, incl Boston Globe piece on Newtonville Books event for The Pale King featuring a reading by Bret Anthony Johnston.
Johnston, Bret Anthony
Wallace, David Foster
Newtonville Books
Invitation to Ploughshares’ 40th Anniversary party, hosted by Denis Leary
Misc Adventures
Flyers for Massachusetts Cultural Council fellows and finalists reading at Newtonville Books on April 5
Newtonville Books
Boston Phoenix article re Small Press Saturday at Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Boston Book Festival 2011 program guide (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Letter from the rare book room at Boston University re donation of first editions
Newtonville Books
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Poor Man’s Gatsby: A Memoir by JDC
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Correspondence – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence – Boston Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton, and Jaime Clarke
Cotton, Mary
Lehane, Dennis
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Manuscript – Poor Man’s Gatsby: A Memoir by JDC
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Manuscript – Vernon Downs, or The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC
Vernon Downs: A Novel
The Last Novel Ever Published
Correspondence – New American Canon project re author’s influences
Influenced By
Correspondence – ECW Press re JDC idea for novelizing the Pet Shop Boys film It Couldn’t Happen Here
Pet Shop Boys
Literary Journey
Unrealized Projects
Correspondence – Talk Show anthology
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Correspondence – Jonathan Lethem re co-editing JL proposed Hitchcock anthology titled Fixing Hitchcock
Lethem, Jonathan
Correspondence – Newtonville Books’s move to 10 Langley Place, Newton Centre
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC (novel)
The Last Novel Ever Published
Manuscript – The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC, including April 18 editorial letter from Kate McKean at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency
The Last Novel Ever Published
Correspondence – Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Boston Book Festival 2012 program guide (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Lehane, Dennis
Cotton, Mary
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Cooper, T
Baum's Bazaar
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Misc Adventures
Spring 2012 issue of The Paris Review featuring interview with Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Brockmeier, Kevin
Baum's Bazaar
Manuscript – Bound first draft of Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Cotton, Mary
Lehane, Dennis
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Park, Ed
Baum's Bazaar
Fully-executed contract dated December 10, 2011 between Akashic Books and Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton, and Jaime Clarke re Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Cotton, Mary
Lehane, Dennis
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Screenshot of Harvard Bookstore listing for Boston Noir 2 event
Barnes, Linda
Gawande, Atul
Ryan, David
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Boucher, Christopher
Post Road Magazine
Coolidge Award: An Evening with Viggo Mortensen, incl tickets, filmography postcard, program, and March 2 Boston Globe Arts section re celebration + pic of Mary Cotton and VM
Cotton, Mary
Mortensen, Viggo
Misc Adventures
Boston Globe Arts section “To Do List” featuring Boston Noir 2 reading at Harvard Bookstore
Barnes, Linda
Gawande, Atul
Ryan, David
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Cotton, Mary
Misc Adventures
Newtonville Books
Hausler, Pete
Misc Adventures
Lehane, Dennis
Cotton, Mary
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Misc Adventures
Letter from The Center for Fiction asking Mary Cotton to judge the Center’s annual Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Diamant, Anita
Grossman, Lev
Hoffman, Alice
Lennon, J. Robert
Livesey, Margot
Russo, Richard
Searle, Elizabeth
Shepard, Jim
Maguire, Gregory
Mattison, Alice
Newtonville Books
Boston Globe piece by Eugenia Williamson re lit mags, incl Post Road mention; also Boston Noir 2 on local bestseller list.
Lehane, Dennis
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
JDC packet for Grub Street’s Muse and the Marketplace Conference May 5-6, featuring JDC panel “My First Time” with Paul Harding and Randy Susan Meyers; incl conference bulletin, JDC badges, and handout for “Who’s Afraid of Amazon?” featuring JDC as panelist.
Harding, Paul
Meyers, Randy Susan
Literary Journey
Boston Globe Books section piece on Newtonville Books front counter made of books
Newtonville Books
Lehane, Dennis
Cotton, Mary
Boston Globe piece on Boston Noir 2 events at Harvard Bookstore and Newtonville Books
Barnes, Linda
Donnelly, Tanya
Gawande, Atul
Leone, Marianne
Ryan, David
Newtonville Books
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence – Talk Show anthology
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers