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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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 – Askold Melnyczuk
Melnyczuk, Askold
Correspondence – Liam Rector
Rector, Liam
Time Out New York listing for Nov 8 KGB Reading with David Ryan
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
Addendum to interview with Bret Easton Ellis – Transcript and BEE’s Notes; includes audiotape of interview.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
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Hausler, Pete
New York City
Ellis, Bret Easton
Manuscript – “The Vegetable King.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-14. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.) (Retitled: “The Flat Earth”)
Literary Journey
Pushcart Prize
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Manuscript – “Knollwood.” Short story. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
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Bingham, Robert
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
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Bennington College
Bennington College
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Manuscript – “The Loan.” Unfinished short story. Handwritten. One page.
Literary Journey
Manuscript – “I Guess This Is Goodbye, Then.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-17. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
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Manuscript – “Kink.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-19.
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Ellis, Bret Easton
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World Gone Water: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
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We're So Famous: A Novel
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Misc. related to Bennington alum writing retreat at Davis Alumni House with David Ryan, Mike Rosovsky, Susan Breen, and Rebecca Boyd (Aug 9-Aug 13).
Rosovsky, Michael
Ryan, David
Boyd, Rebecca
Breen, Susan
Bennington College
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
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Literary Journey
Jan-June 311 W. 6th Ave, NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
July: 25 Jay St., Brooklyn
O the Places I've Lived!
New York City
Ames, Jonathan
New York City
Correspondence – Liam Rector
Rector, Liam
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Misc Adventures
Misc Adventures
Correspondence re the publication of “The Serial Lover” in AGNI. Includes contract dated September 24, 1998 and July 1999 cover letter with galleys.
AGNI Magazine
Melnyczuk, Askold
Literary Journey
Barthelme, Frederick
Rosovsky, Michael
Bock, Charles
Ryan, David
Boyd, Rebecca
The Mississippi Review
Literary Journey
Harold Ober Associates profit sharing documents
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
Correspondence re the all-interview issue of The Mississippi Review edited by JDC. Includes drafts of interviews with Bret Easton Ellis, Rick Bass, Mary Gaitskill, Tim Gautreaux, Thom Jones, Rick Moody, and Padgett Powell.
Barthelme, Frederick
Rosovsky, Michael
Bock, Charles
Ryan, David
Boyd, Rebecca
The Mississippi Review
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Manuscript – “Salt Lake City” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-12.
Literary Journey
Invitation to Thomas C. Wallace‘s Halloween party at the Century Club
New York City
AGNI 50 featuring “The Serial Lover” by JDC. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
AGNI Magazine
Melnyczuk, Askold
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Correspondence re the publication of “Lindy” in the 1999 Mississippi Review Prize Issue. Includes contract dated November 23, 1999 and November 1999 galleys.
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
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Bennington College
Correspondence re the publication of “Screen Test” (formerly “Sacrifice”) in Black Dirt. Includes contract dated April 1999 and November 1999 galleys.
Black Dirt Magazine
Literary Journey
The Mississippi Review Prize Issue featuring “Lindy” by JDC (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
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World Gone Water: A Novel
Standard Deviation
Literary Journey
We’re So Famous – Draft and research material for novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
Harold Ober Associates
Post Road Magazine
Apr: 311 W. 6th Ave, NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
Sept: 245 E. 80th St., NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
Dec: 245 E. 80th St., NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
KGB Bar
The Mississippi Review
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
Ames, Jonathan
New York City
Flyer and Invitation for “Starbound New Writers Night” at Russian Samovar- March 7, 2000 reading with David Ryan. Hosted by Fiona Maazel + Nicole Krauss
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Maazel, Fiona
New York City
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Standard Deviation
New York City
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Time Out New York listing for April 9, 2000 “Mississippi Review Night” reading at KGB with David Ryan
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
The Mississippi Review
KGB Bar
New York City
Standard Deviation
New York City
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We're So Famous: A Novel
New York City
New York City
We're So Famous: A Novel
New York City
Standard Deviation
New York City
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Galapagos postcard advertising “Standard Deviation Night” – October 25, 2000
Standard Deviation
New York City
Literary Journey
New York City
Shout Magazine
New York City
Post Road Magazine
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – JDC author photo
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Claire McKinney re publicity for We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Loose galleys for We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Panagiotis Gianopoulos re We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Loose galleys for We’re So Famous, corrected by JDC.
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Contract for We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
O the Places I've Lived!
Manuscript – “A House Divided.” Short Story. Typed. Pgs 1-6.
College Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Arizona State University
Phoenix College
Phoenix, AZ
Manuscript – “Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-42. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
College Writing
College Writing
Manuscript – “St. Janice.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-8.
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
Correspondence – Persona co-fiction editor Lavinia Spalding
Persona Magazine
Spalding, Lavinia
University of Arizona
Johnson, Denis
Manuscript – “Waiting for Christie.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11.
College Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Manuscript – “Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-18. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Table of Contents for Persona Magazine, fiction edited by JDC and Lavinia Spalding
Persona Magazine
Spalding, Lavinia
University of Arizona
Manuscript – “A Complete Gentleman.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-34. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
University of Arizona
Manuscript – “Pleasure Island.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-20. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Manuscript – “Shane of Lubbock.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16.
College Writing
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis incl bio info; “Interview with Bret Easton Ellis,” by Mark Amerika and Alexander Laurence; New York Times Book Review review of The Informers written by George Stade; November/December 1994 U Magazine interview with BEE titled “Days of Whining Poseurs,” by Joshua Mann.
Ellis, Bret Easton
University of Arizona
JDC application to the Bennington College Low-Residency MFA program dated October 11, 1994
Bennington College
Rector, Liam
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
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World Gone Water: A Novel
University of Arizona
Ellis, Bret Easton
May-June: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
July-Aug: Kaibab-Huachuca Dorm, Tucson, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
Fall: 4236 N. 103rd Ave, #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
University of Arizona Transcript - 1993-1994; including transcript for Estrella Mountain Community College
University of Arizona
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis including June 1995 Details Magazine profile of Val Kilmer by BEE; May 1995 copy of Manhattan File featuring Glamorama excerpt by BEE; Hotwired interview with BEE; photo of BEE with Candace Bushnell from At Random.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Harold Ober Associates
Apprentice Writing
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – Essay – “Building a Better Character (In 90 Days or Less).” Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – January 1995 workshop – “Urbana.” Annotated by Reginald McKnight. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
McKnight, Reginald
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Don DeLillo’s White Noise.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – June Workshop – “Pleasure Island.” Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ethan Canin’s Star Food.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Center by Amy Hempel.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “I Would Have Saved Them If I Could by Leonard Michaels.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Anton Chekhov’s The Shooting Party.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “David Foster Wallace’s Girl With Curious Hair.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Madison Smartt Bell.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “A Stranger in this World, stories by Kevin Canty.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “U&I by Nicholson Baker.”
Bennington College
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.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – ‘Shane of Lubbock” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk; includes alternate version, typed, pgs 1-3.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
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.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – “World Gone Water” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Airships by Barry Hannah.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “The Vegetable King” – Novel excerpt. Typed, pgs 1-44. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis.”
Bennington College
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.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
We're So Famous: A Novel
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Sportswriter by Richard Ford.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Last” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-2. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Unsaid” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-7. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Anerotic” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-5. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “From Our New York Office” – Short story. Typed, one page.
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
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.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – “Monthly Payments’ – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Bennington College
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
Pushcart Prize
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Bennington College
Correspondence – Fiona McCrae at Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press
Bennington College
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Letter from Chelsea Magazine enclosing payment for publication of “A Complete Gentleman” in Chelsea #59; incl color copy of check.
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College