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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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?”)
Bloomsbury – J. Robert Lennon blurb for World Gone Water:
Bloomsbury – Matt Bell blurb for World Gone Water:
Bloomsbury – Amy Grace Loyd blurb for World Gone Water:
Feb 4 Real Change review by Joe Martin of Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Ausubel, Ramona
Literary Hub
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC, published by IG Books
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Correspondence – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – Charles Bock introduction to Bloomsbury reissue of We’re So Famous
Bock, Charles
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – We’re So Famous Bloomsbury reissue + Typical of the Times as an afterword, with an introduction by Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
We're So Famous: A Novel
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Correspondence – re Harold Ober Mystery Teleplay by JDC
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Correspondence – Mary Gaitskill re including her Post Road rec in an upcoming book
Gaitskill, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Manuscript – “The Salinger Principle, or, A Novelist You’ve Never Heard of Calls it Quits” by JDC, published by Literary Hub as “Why I Quit Being a Writer”
Literary Hub
Salinger, J.D.
Literary Journey
Correspondence – re “Why I Quit Being a Writer” by JDC published by the Literary Hub (“The Salinger Principle”)
Literary Hub
Salinger, J.D.
Literary Journey
Correspondence – The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC writing as as J.D. West
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Manuscript – “The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary” – Teleplay by JDC
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Bauer, Douglas
Bender, Aimee
Bender, Karen E.
Calhoun, Kenneth
Fountain, Ben
Gawande, Atul
Glass, Julia
Graver, Elizabeth
Hood, Ann
King, Owen
Kushner, Rachel
LeCraw, Holly
Leone, Marianne
Lethem, Jonathan
Livesey, Margot
Lynn, Allison
Ng, Celeste
Perrotta, Tom
Ryan, David
Shepard, Jim
Shepard, Karen
Treadway, Jessica
van den Berg, Laura
Wilson, Jonathan
Maguire, Gregory
Mirvis, Tova
Newtonville Books
Mona Awad blurb for reissue of We’re So Famous: “We’re So Famous smartly anticipates a culture re-configured by the quest for fame. The starry-eyed girls at the center of this rock-and-roll fairy tale are the predecessors of today’s selfie-snappers. With biting wit and wry humor, Clarke brilliantly reminds us that we’ve always lived for likes.”
Awad, Mona
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – Letter from Setti Warren, mayor of Newton, MA, re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Birch, Thora
Zappa, Moon Unit
Lennon, J. Robert
Chapman, Maile
Barthelme, Frederick
Dubus III, Andre
Clarke, Brock
Antopol, Molly
Park, Ed
Bezmozgis, David
Jemc, Jac
Oria, Shelly
Ryan, David
Rich, Nathaniel
Pittard, Hannah
Lehane, Dennis
Hill, Katherine
Redel, Victoria
Shteyngart, Gary
Cheshire, Scott
Salvatore, Joseph
Ng, Celeste
Specktor, Matthew
Wascom, Kent
Vida, Vendela
Weil, Josh
Strauss, Darin
Jones, Alden
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Brad Watson blurb for Garden Lakes: “Jaime Clarke reminds us that if the banality of evil is indeed a viable truth, its seeds are most likely sewn among adolescent boys.”
Watson, Brad
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Finished copy of 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
Bender, Aimee
Furst, Joshua
Hughes, Mary-Beth
Hunt, Samantha
Julavits, Heidi
Kirshenbaum, Binnie
LaBute, Neil
Langer, Adam
LaValle, Victor
Leavitt, David
Lipsyte, Sam
Lynn, Allison
Park, Ed
Rich, Nathaniel
Robinson, Roxana
Schrank, Ben
Scott, James
Searle, Elizabeth
Ward, Amanda Eyre
The Last Novel Ever Published
Margot Livesey blurb for Garden Lakes: “In the flawlessly imagined Garden Lakes, Jaime Clarke pays homage to Lord of the Flies and creates his own vivid, inadvertently isolated community. As summer tightens its grip, and adult authority recedes, his boys gradually reveal themselves to scary and exhilarating effect. In the hands of this master of suspense and psychological detail, the result is a compulsively readable novel.”
Livesey, Margot
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC (formerly Poor Man’s Gatsby)
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Julia Glass blurb for Garden Lakes: “It takes some nerve to revisit a bulletproof classic, but Jaime Clarke does so, with elegance and a cool contemporary eye, in this cunningly crafted homage to Lord of the Flies. He understands all too well the complex psychology of boyhood, how easily the insecurities and power plays slide into mayhem when adults look the other way.”
Glass, Julia
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC as J.D. West
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Publishers Marketplace mention of deal for Bloomsbury reissue of We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Boston Book Festival Guide, Oct 14-15, 2016. (+)
Boston Book Festival
Paul Harding blurb for Garden Lakes: “As tense and tight and pitch-perfect as Clarke’s narrative of the harrowing events at Garden Lakes is, and as fine a meditation it is on Golding’s novel, what deepens this book to another level of insight and artfulness is the parallel portrait of Charlie Martens as an adult, years after his fateful role that summer, still tyrannized, paralyzed, tangled in lies, wishing for redemption, maybe fated never to get it. Complicated and feral, Garden Lakes is thrilling, literary, and smart as hell.”
Harding, Paul
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Scott Cheshire blurb for Garden Lakes: “Smart, seductive, and suggestively sinister, Garden Lakes is a disturbingly honest look at how our lies shape our lives and destroy our communities. Read it: Part three in one of the best literary trilogies we have.”
Cheshire, Scott
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Grub Street Muse and the Marketplace conference bulletin ad for Newtonville Books featuring Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Booklist review of Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Fully-executed contract dated Jan 16 with IG Publishing for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC (formerly Poor Man’s Gatsby)
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
New York Times Book Review featuring capsule review of Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Bock, Charles
We're So Famous: A Novel
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Patchett, Ann
Newtonville Books
Cotton, Mary
Misc Adventures
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Literary Hub
Literary Journey
Brooklyn Rail piece by Joseph Salvatore re the Bookmarked series, featuring mention of JDC
Brooklyn Rail
Salvatore, Joseph
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Misc Adventures
Literary Hub
Newtonville Books
Saunders, George
Newtonville Books
Bennington College
Literary Journey
Draft of introduction by Christopher Boucher for More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Boucher (formerly Overcompensating Autodidact) featuring mention of JDC
Boucher, Christopher
Lethem, Jonathan
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Mona Awad blurb for reissue of We’re So Famous:
Bloomsbury – Julia Glass blurb for Garden Lakes:
Bloomsbury – Brad Watson blurb for Garden Lakes:
Bloomsbury – Margot Livesey blurb for Garden Lakes:
Bloomsbury – Scott Cheshire blurb for Garden Lakes:
Bloomsbury – Paul Harding blurb for Garden Lakes:
Finished copy – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby (formerly What I Wanted to Be + American Kaleidoscope + Poor Man’s Gatsby)
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Bergin, Josephine
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Strand Magazine featuring full page ad for The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC as J.D. West
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Karen E. Bender blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby: “Jaime Clarke’s ode to Gatsby is a completely winning, honest ode to everything: the yearning of an outsider, for success, the drama of the work world, the seduction and darkness of wealth, the search for love and the complex, bumpy life of a writer. The Nick Carraway of Phoenix stakes his own literary territory here; a charming and engaging book.”
Bender, Karen E.
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Tickets and Playbill to A Doll’s House Part 2 on Broadway, starring Chris Cooper, with Mary Cotton.
Cooper, Chris
Cotton, Mary
Misc Adventures
Correspondence – Bloomsbury re story collection Minor Characters based on minor characters from JDC novels, to be written by other authors, and published by Bloomsbury in 2021
Minor Characters: Stories
Manuscript – Vernon Downs screenplay by JDC
Vernon Downs: A Novel
David James Poissant blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby: “Jaime Clarke has penned a smart, funny, beguiling account of his love affair with America’s favorite novel. This book, like its narrator, lives “both inside Fitzgerald’s pages and out,” the best case of literary obsession I’ve had the pleasure of reading since Nicholson Baker’s U & I. A must-read, and not just for Gatsby fans.”
Poissant, David James
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Boston Globe book section with “New England Literary News” by Nina MacLaughlin featuring piece on JDC and David Ryan viz Bookmarked publications; incl copies of listings for Bookmarked events at Sarah Lawrence College and Greenlight bookstore, not attended by JDC; and Ig Publishing notice of publication for Bookmarked editions by JDC and David Ryan.
Ryan, David
MacLaughlin, Nina
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Finished copy – More Alive and Less Lonely by Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Boucher, signed to JDC by JL and CB
Boucher, Christopher
Lethem, Jonathan
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Awad, Mona
Bauer, Douglas
Calhoun, Kenneth
Fountain, Ben
Gawande, Atul
Glass, Julia
Goldstein, Meredith
Hartnett, Annie
Hempel, Amy
Hood, Ann
King, Owen
Leone, Marianne
Lethem, Jonathan
Livesey, Margot
Lodato, Victor
Nadler, Stuart
Perrotta, Tom
Pitlor, Heidi
Scott, James
Searle, Elizabeth
Shepard, Karen
Treadway, Jessica
van den Berg, Laura
Walker, Sarai
Wilson, Jonathan
MacLaughlin, Nina
Messud, Claire
Mirvis, Tova
Newtonville Books
Literary Journey
Manuscript – Screenplay adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Boston Herald piece “Novel takes the cake for former Newton resident” re Annie Hartnett reading at Newtonville Books from her novel, Rabbit Cake
Hartnett, Annie
Newtonville Books
Boston Book Festival Guide. Oct 27-28, 2017. (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Stephen King rider re Sept 28 event with SK and Owen King for Sleeping Beauties at First Baptist Church, hosted by Newtonville Books; incl ticket issued to JDC; incl Newton Police Department invoice for police detail.
King, Owen
King, Stephen
Newtonville Books
Boucher, Christopher
Saunders, George
Newtonville Books
Blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by Karen E. Bender:
Blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by David James Poissant:
Correspondence – Minor Characters, a collection based on minor characters from JDC novels, featuring original stories 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, with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem, and an introduction by Laura van den Berg, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
Minor Characters: Stories
Manuscript – World Gone Water screenplay
World Gone Water: A Novel
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Leavitt, David
Newtonville Books
Boucher, Christopher
Newtonville Books
Shelf Awareness email featuring Newtonville Books’s 20th anniversary
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Radio play adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Newtonville Books
Newton Tab 2017 Reader’s Choice Awards featuring Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Boston Book Festival Guide. Oct 12-13, 2018. (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Publishers Weekly article announcing Newtonville Books as a 2018 Pannell Award nominee
Publishers Weekly
Newtonville Books
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Manuscript – Radio play adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Awad, Mona
Calhoun, Kenneth
Newtonville Books
Talk Show Episode: Places You Would Never Visit with Jami Attenberg, Adam Braver, Nina de Gramont, Ann Hood, and Moon Unit Zappa
Zappa, Moon Unit
Braver, Adam
de Gramont, Nina
Hood, Ann
Attenberg, Jami
de Gramont, Nina
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Blind (EP) by John Laprade (+)
Laprade, John
Talk Show Episode: Monumental Pop Culture with Julianna Baggott, Lisa Borders, Maria Flook, Antonya Nelson, and Darin Strauss
Flook, Maria
Baggott, Julianna
Borders, Lisa
Nelson, Antonya
Strauss, Darin
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Family Myth with Allison Lynn, Joshua Neuman, Thisbe Nissen, Dan Pope, and Rachel Sherman
Lynn, Allison
Pope, Dan
Sherman, Rachel
Neuman, Joshua
Nissen, Thisbe
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Time Capsule with Quinn Dalton, Owen King, Adam Langer, and Nelly Reifler
Dalton, Quinn
King, Owen
Langer, Adam
Reifler, Nelly
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: First Car with Jon Clinch, Don Lee, Robert Anthony Siegel, Alix Strauss, and Sean Wilsey
Siegel, Robert Anthony
Clinch, Jon
Lee, Don
Strauss, Alix
Wilsey, Sean
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Caught in a Lie with Kiara Brinkman, Bret Anthony Johnston, Fiona Maazel, Alix Ohlin, and Margo Rabb
Johnston, Bret Anthony
Ohlin, Alix
Brinkman, Kiara
Maazel, Fiona
Rabb, Margo
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Newtonville Books
Talk Show Episode: Historical Person You’d Like to Meet with Kevin Brockmeier, Sloane Crosley, Sophie Gee, Samantha Hunt, and Melissa Pritchard
Brockmeier, Kevin
Crosley, Sloane
Hunt, Samantha
Pritchard, Melissa
Gee, Sophie
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Doubting Thomas with David Ebershoff, Sheridan Hay, Amy MacKinnon, Kirsten Menger-Anderson, and Roxana Robinson
Ebershoff, David
Robinson, Roxana
Hay, Sheridan
MacKinnon, Amy
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: First Date with Chris Bohjalian, Joshua Henkin, Perrin Ireland, Aryn Kyle, and Kelly McMasters
Bohjalian, Chris
Henkin, Joshua
Ireland, Perrin
Kyle, Aryn
McMasters, Kelly
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Road Trip with Jennifer Haigh, Margot Livesey, Mark Jude Poirier, Stacey Richter, and Daniel Wallace
Livesey, Margot
Richter, Stacey
Wallace, Daniel
Haigh, Jennifer
Poirer, Mark Jude
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Life-changing Technology with Elizabeth Crane, Michael Dahlie, Tony D’ Souza, J. Robert Lennon, and Salvatore Scibona
Crane, Elizabeth
Dahlie, Michael
Lennon, J. Robert
D'Souza, Tony
Scibona, Salvatore
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Generational Trauma with Elisa Albert, Anita Diamant, Michael Lowenthal, Askold Melnyczuk, and Jim Shepard
Lowenthal, Michael
Shepard, Jim
Albert, Elisa
Diamant, Anita
Melnyczuk, Askold
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Embarrassing Moment with Will Allison, Rebecca Donner, Ron McLarty, and Ben Schrank
Schrank, Ben
Allison, Will
Donner, Rebecca
McLarty, Ron
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road writing contests judged by Heidi Julavits (fiction) and Wes McNair (poetry)
Julavits, Heidi
McNair, Wes
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – The Review Review review of Post Road 16
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Letter from Lesley University officially declining to renew agreement to publish Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence from Ron McLarty re Post Road
McLarty, Ron
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Andre Balazs re Post Road becoming the house magazine at the Chateau Marmont
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Boston Globe article entitled “Literati have a nip with their authors” featuring Post Road mention
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re signing agreement with Boston College
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Signed copies of Post Road/Boston College agreement
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road/Boston College merger
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Flyers for Boston College Arts Festival Apr 23-25, featuring Post Road mention
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Draft copies of Post Road/Boston College agreement
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Signed Unanimous Consent of directors re Mary Cotton’s resignation from Post Road Board, dated May 1
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – email to editors re first meeting with Ricco Siasoco, Post Road’s new managing editor at Boston College
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to editors re uncertain future after Post Road 16
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Diane Williams re Harper’s Magazine reprinting her piece “My First Real Home”; incl Jan 2009 issue of Harper’s featuring reprint.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email from Post Road contributor Dora Malech re her poem “Face for Radio” being anthologized in the Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with John Parsley at Little, Brown re the idea of a Post Road anthology of work from the first sixteen issues
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Debra Spark re her piece from Post Road 15 being listed as a Pushcart Prize Special Mention
Pushcart Prize
Post Road Magazine
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Post Road Magazine – Letter from Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts re Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Talk Show Episode: Over-rated with Jenna Blum, Julia Glass, Nellie Hermann, Dinaw Mengestu, and Matthew Pearl
Glass, Julia
Blum, Jenna
Hermann, Nellie
Mengestu, Dinaw
Pearl, Matthew
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Manuscript – Talk Show anthology
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Place and Time with Sven Birkerts, Lisa Gabriele, Yael Goldstein Love, and Adrienne Miller
Birkerts, Sven
Gabriele, Lisa
Love, Yael Goldstein
Miller, Adrienne
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: First Apartment with Leah Hager Cohen, Joshua Ferris, Alice Mattison, and Ann Packer
Cohen, Leah Hager
Ferris, Joshua
Mattison, Alice
Packer, Ann
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Manuscript – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence – Talk Show at Fanzine.com
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Correspondence – re American Energies: Contemporary Writers and Their Achievements,Ambitions, and Aspirations, edited by JDC
Literary Journey
Unrealized Projects
Manuscript – Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Talk Show Episode: Blue Ribbons with Thomas Beller, Joshua Furst, Elizabeth Graver, Dave King, and Binnie Kirshenbaum
Furst, Joshua
Graver, Elizabeth
Kirshenbaum, Binnie
Beller, Thomas
King, Dave
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Irrational Fear with Brian Evenson, Lev Grossman, Elizabeth McCracken, Hannah Pittard, Karen Shepard, and Gary Shteyngart
Evenson, Brian
Grossman, Lev
Pittard, Hannah
Shepard, Karen
Shteyngart, Gary
McCracken, Elizabeth
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Manuscript – Proposal for Afternoons at the Odeon (film anth) edited by JDC, featuring original essays by Dennis Lehane, Gregory Maguire, Julia Glass, Charles Bock, Moon Unit Zappa, Lev Grossman, Antonya Nelson, Sven Birkerts, Lydia Millet, J. Robert Lennon, Aimee Bender, David Ebershoff, Thomas Beller, Wesley Stace, Elisa Albert, Ben Nugent, Salvatore Scibona, Adrienne Miller, Owen King, Nathaniel Rich, Ryan Boudinot, Elizabeth Searle, Holly LeCraw, and Rebecca Wolff. with an introduction by Neil LaBute.
LaBute, Neil
Lehane, Dennis
Maguire, Gregory
Glass, Julia
Bock, Charles
Zappa, Moon Unit
Grossman, Lev
Nelson, Antonya
Birkerts, Sven
Millet, Lydia
Lennon, J. Robert
Bender, Aimee
Ebershoff, David
Beller, Thomas
Stace, Wesley (aka John Wesley Harding)
Albert, Elisa
Nugent, Ben
Scibona, Salvatore
Miller, Adrienne
King, Owen
Rich, Nathaniel
Boudinot, Ryan
Wolff, Rebecca
Searle, Elizabeth
LeCraw, Holly
Literary Journey
Unrealized Projects
Talk Show Episode: Past into Present with Daphne Beal, Charles Bock, Emily Chenoweth, John McNally, Irina Reyn, and Peter Trachtenberg
Bock, Charles
Reyn, Irina
Beal, Daphne
McNally, John
Chenoweth, Emily
Trachtenberg, Peter
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: First Favorite Album with Aimee Bender, David Leavitt, Dennis Lehane, Sam Lipsyte, Peter Rock, Dana Spiotta, and A.J. Verdelle
Spiotta, Dana
Bender, Aimee
Leavitt, David
Lehane, Dennis
Lipsyte, Sam
Rock, Peter
Verdelle, A.J.
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Talk Show Episode: Saturday Morning Cartoon with Allison Amend, Ryan Boudinot, Francie Lin, Ed Park, Heidi Pitlor, and Nathaniel Rich
Park, Ed
Pitlor, Heidi
Rich, Nathaniel
Amend, Allison
Boudinot, Ryan
Lin, Francie
Jock, Danny
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
JDC complimentary membership to the Friends of the Library at Boston University
Newtonville Books
Cotton, Mary
Misc Adventures
Program for Brattleboro Literary Festival, October 2-4, 2009
Misc Adventures
Contract for panel appearance at Bennington College alum residency; including Benn event listing info and correspondence re panel with Sven Birkerts.
Birkerts, Sven
Bennington College
Boston Book Festival Program Guide – October 24, 2009 (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Misc Adventures
Tickets for Buffalo Tom at the Paradise Rock Club, June 26, 2009, with Tom Perrotta and Mary Granfield + Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
Perrotta, Tom
Misc Adventures
Program for New Yorker Festival, Oct 16-18, 2009; incl tix for Joshua Ferris and Aleksandar Hemon, Fri, Oct 16; James Franco in conversation with Lauren Collins, Sat, Oct 17; Inside the Artist’s Studio: Chuck Close, Sun, Oct 18.
Misc Adventures
Correspondence – Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Letter from Hannah Tinti re her reading at Newtonville Books for the paperback of The Good Thief
Tinti, Hannah
Newtonville Books
Boston Globe “Shelf Life” column re the Celebrity Bookclub at Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Talk Show anthology
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Boston Globe article by Margot Livesey titled “Following Boston’s Other Historical Trail” incl mention of Newtonville Books
Livesey, Margot
Newtonville Books
Boston Globe article titled “Unchained Success: Independent Bookstores Holding Up vs. Big Rivals” incl mention of Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re sending the Post Road anthology out to editors; also about the first Post Road/Boston College Board meeting on May 22.
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence – University Press of Mississippi re Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Boston Globe article re the creation of the Celebrity Bookclub
Newtonville Books
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re PR booth at the first annual Boston Book Festival; incl article in Bay State Banner about the Boston Book Festival incl Post Road mention.
Boston Book Festival
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re “Rara Avis: How to Tell a True Bird Story” by Jackson Connor and “Tiny Monuments: A Look at Snapshot Photography” by Hannah Lifson from Post Road 16 being selected as Honorable Mentions for the Best American Essays, ed by Mary Oliver
Oliver, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road transition to BC
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road anthology selections, Vol I
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re “Monster” by Rebekah Frumkin being chosen for Best American Nonrequired Reading, edited by Dave Eggers; incl Nov 17 article entitled “Carleton student’s short story published in national anthology” by David Henke.
Eggers, Dave
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road anthology selections, Vol II
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Contract with Dzanc Books for Post Road anthology
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Queries to publishers re the Post Road anthology
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Correspondence — Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence — Conversations with Jonathan Lethem Vol I
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Correspondence — Conversations with Jonathan Lethem Vol II
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Correspondence — Post Road re Boston College transition
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence — Talk Show anthology
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Correspondence — No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (Post Road anthology published by Dzanc Books)
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Manuscript — Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, ed by JDC; incl JDC editor questionnaire and permission form templates
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Contract dated September 30, 2009 between JDC and University Press of Mississippi for Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Correspondence — Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Manuscript — No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine ed by JDC and Mary Cotton (ToC) with selections by Jim Shepard, Owen King, Charles Bock, Phillip Lopate, Richard Hoffman, Lydia Millet, Allison Amend, Stacey Richter, April Bernard, Lev Grossman, Elisa Albert, Tom Sleigh, Ed Park, Nathaniel Rich, Mark Strand, Karen Shepard, Amy Gerstler, Ann Hood, Edward Albee, Sloane Crosley, Yusef Komunyakaa, Joshua Furst, Roxana Robinson, Margot Livesey, Michael Dahlie, Daniel Wallace, Mary Jo Bang, Darin Strauss, Michael Ryan, Melissa Pritchard, Allison Lynn, David Means, Galt Niederhoffer, Maud Casey, and Will Allison
Shepard, Jim
King, Owen
Bock, Charles
Lopate, Philip
Hoffman, Richard
Millet, Lydia
Amend, Allison
Richter, Stacey
Bernard, April
Grossman, Lev
Albert, Elisa
Sleigh, Tom
Park, Ed
Rich, Nathaniel
Strand, Mark
Shepard, Karen
Gerstler, Amy
Hood, Ann
Albee, Edward
Crosley, Sloane
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Furst, Joshua
Robinson, Roxana
Livesey, Margot
Dahlie, Michael
Wallace, Daniel
Bang, Mary Jo
Strauss, Darin
Ryan, Michael
Pritchard, Melissa
Lynn, Allison
Means, David
Niederhoffer, Galt
Casey, Maud
Allison, Will
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Manuscript — Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript — American Kaleidoscope: A Memoir by JDC
Literary Journey
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Winter 2009 Paris Review featuring Newtonville Books First Editions ad
Newtonville Books
Playbill for “American Idiot” at St. James Theatre in NYC; including tickets for May 27 performance; also, copy of ticket for May 28 performance of “Glee” at Radio City Music Hall.
Misc Adventures
Publishers Weekly
Newtonville Books