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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

2003

Letter from Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County acknowledging receipt of donation

2003

Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Garden Lakes

2003
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Correspondence with Justin Manask at Gotler Associates re Garden Lakes

2003

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

2003

Correspondence with Webster Younce at Picador USA re Garden Lakes

2003

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

2003
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Correspondence with Brendan Cahill at Gotham Books/Penguin Putnam re Garden Lakes

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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.

2003

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.

2003

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.

2003
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Ricco Siasoco, David Ryan, and Cat Parnell re the Post Road website

2003
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Kristina Lucenko re Rick Barthelme assigning Post Road in his class at Univ of Mississippi

2003

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)

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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.

2003

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

2003

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.

2003

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

2003

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.

2003

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.

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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.

2003

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

2003

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.

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003
2003

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

2003

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

2003

Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence re Recommendations for Post Road

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003

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

2003
2003

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

2003

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

2003
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Email from Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly soliciting comment re J.D. Salinger (+)

2004

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

2004

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

2004

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

2004

Correspondence with Tamar Brazis re Garden Lakes

2004

Correspondence with Jim Schiff at Time Warner Books re Scavengers

2004
2004

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

2004

Correspondence with Tom Perrotta re We’re So Famous screenplay

2004

Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Garden Lakes

2004
2004

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

2004

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

2004
2004

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

2004

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

2004

Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Panagiotis Gianopoulos re Garden Lakes

2004

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

2004

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

2004

Correspondence re oral history of films of John Hughes

2004
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Manuscript – “A House Divided.” Short Story. Typed. Pgs 1-6.

1992
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1992

Manuscript – “Urbana.”  Short story. Typed, pgs 1-42. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1993
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1993

Manuscript – “St. Janice.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-8.

1993
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1993

Correspondence – Persona co-fiction editor Lavinia Spalding

1993
1993

Manuscript – “Waiting for Christie.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11.

1993
1993

Manuscript – “Urbana.”  Short story. Typed, pgs 1-18. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1994
1994

Manuscript – “A Complete Gentleman.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-34. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1994
1994

Manuscript – “Pleasure Island.”  Short story. Typed, pgs 1-20. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1994

Manuscript – “Shane of Lubbock.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16.

1994
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JDC application to the Bennington College Low-Residency MFA program dated October 11, 1994

1994
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May-June: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #7, Phoenix, AZ

1994
1994

Fall: 4236 N. 103rd Ave, #7, Phoenix, AZ

1994
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Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

1995
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JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier.”

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – Essay – “Building a Better Character (In 90 Days or Less).”  Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – January 1995 workshop – “Urbana.”  Annotated by Reginald McKnight. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1995
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JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Don DeLillo’s White Noise.”

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – June Workshop – “Pleasure Island.” Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1995
1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ethan Canin’s Star Food.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Center by Amy Hempel.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “I Would Have Saved Them If I Could by Leonard Michaels.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Anton Chekhov’s The Shooting Party.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “David Foster Wallace’s Girl With Curious Hair.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Madison Smartt Bell.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “A Stranger in this World, stories by Kevin Canty.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “U&I by Nicholson Baker.”

1995

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.)

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – ‘Shane of Lubbock” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk; includes alternate version, typed, pgs 1-3.

1995

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.)

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “World Gone Water” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Airships by Barry Hannah.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino.”

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “The Vegetable King” – Novel excerpt. Typed, pgs 1-44. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis.”

1995

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.)

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Sportswriter by Richard Ford.”

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “Last” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-2. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “Unsaid” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-7. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “Anerotic” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-5. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “From Our New York Office” – Short story. Typed, one page.

1995

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.)

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “Monthly Payments’ – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995
1995

Correspondence – Charles Bock

1996

Correspondence – Amy Hempel

1996
1996

Correspondence – Douglas Bauer

1996

Correspondence – Fiona McCrae at Graywolf Press

1996

Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

1996

Letter from Chelsea Magazine enclosing payment for publication of “A Complete Gentleman” in Chelsea #59; incl color copy of check.

1996
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