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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

Post Road Magazine – Mary Cotton email to editors re “Trial by Trash” by Jon Stattmann from Post Road 11 being a Best American Essays Honorable Mention in the volume edited by Lauren Slater

2006

Post Road Magazine – Emails re the end of the Post Road Ambassador Program

2006

Post Road Magazine – Mary Cotton email to editors re Post Road 11 Pushcart Special Mentions: “The Magic Box” by Robert Anthony Siegel, “All or Nothing at the Faberge” by Peter Grandbois, and “She, Under the Umbrella, Went” by Melissa Haley

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham re Post Road trademarking application

2006

Post Road Magazine – Email to Boston area lit mag editors inviting them to sit on the Post Road panel at Lesley University

2006

Post Road Magazine – Request to anthologize “Gold Firebird” by Peter Rock from Post Road 12 in Best Stories from the Southwest

2006

Post Road Magazine – Query from Jan Gardner of The Boston Globe re Post Road; incl Mary Cotton answers.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road 13 recommendations

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with George Saunders re the inaugural “Post Road Questionnaire” (to replace the “Twenty Questions” feature); incl GS’s answers to PRQ.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Literary Ventures Fund re starting a Post Road fiction and poetry writing contest; incl email exchange with Michael Chabon re judging contest.

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol VI

2007

Don’t You Forget About MeSteve Almond, Lisa Gabriele, and Dan Pope essays reprinted in The National Post (Canada)

2007
2007

Various listings and press for Don’t You Forget About Me Coolidge Corner event incl Coolidge Corner Theatre web site listing, Boston Phoenix starred listing, Boston Herald listing, Boston Globe listing, and Brookline Booksmith listing

2007
2007
2007
2007

Boston Globe press re John Hughes anthology Coolidge Corner Theatre event

2007

Boston Phoenix press re John Hughes anthology Coolidge Corner Theatre event

2007

Indianapolis Star bestseller list including Don’t You Forget About Me

2007

Don’t You Forget About Me – Screenshot of web site for XM Satellite radio show Broadminded featuring interview with JDC

2007
2007

Washington Times review of Don’t You Forget About Me by Robert Stacy McCain; plus review by Christian Toto.

2007

Mediabistro piece on anthologies featuring JDC and Don’t You Forget About Me

2007
2007

Screenshot of KMOX website featuring Mark on Movies interview with JDC re Don’t You Forget About Me, hosted by Mark Reardon

2007

Ploughshares interview with Lewis Robinson including Don’t You Forget About Me mention

2007
2007

Columbus Dispatch review of Don’t You Forget About Me dated March 26 by Nick Chordas

2007

Manuscript – We’re So Famous screenplay – Gertrude version 4

2007

Correspondence – Mockingbird Pictures re We’re So Famous screenplay

2007
2007
2007

Manuscript – World Gone Water

2007

JDC NYC press schedule for Don’t You Forget About Me

2007
2007

Village Voice listing for Don’t You Forget About Me event at IFC Center in NYC

2007

The Onion listing for Don’t You Forget About Me event at IFC Center in NYC

2007

Various listings for Don’t You Forget About Me event at IFC Center in NYC in AM New York, Gothamist, and The L Magazine

2007

Correspondence – with Lauren Abramo at Dystel Goderich re World Gone Water

2007
2007

Correspondence – with Lauren Abramo at Dystel Goderich re submission of What I Wanted to Be: A Memoir by JDC

2007

“A-List” feature from Tribute Magazine featuring Don’t You Forget About Me

2007
2007

Anthologists’ Roundtable by JDC in The Southeast Review

2007
2007

University of Arizona Alumnus magazine, featuring JDC mention re Don’t You Forget About Me

2007

Correspondence re Mary Cotton purchase of Newtonville Books

2007

Correspondence – Talk Show at Fanzine.com – Vol II

2007

Correspondence re transition of Newtonville Books

2007
2007
2007

Correspondence – Talk Show at Fanzine.com – Vol I

2007
2007

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Jennifer and Adam Pieroni re integrating Post Road and Quick Fiction

2007
2007
2007
2007
2007

Post Road Magazine – Luna Park review of Post Road 14

2007

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with the University of Arizona Poetry Center reclaiming Post Road archives

2007

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road fundraiser

2007

Post Road Magazine – Summer 2007 issue of Writer’s Chronicle featuring full page ad for Lesley MFA Program incl mention of Post Road

2007
2007
2007
2007

Post Road Magazine – Spring 2007 student evaluation of Post Road internship at Lesley University MFA Program; incl Lesley program flyer.

2007

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Margaret Hannigan at The Mercury Lounge in NYC re Post Road party at Associated Writing Program conference in NYC in 2008; incl contract.

2007

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Rebecca Wolff re merging Post Road and Fence

2007

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Elizabeth Graver re the possibility of merging Post Road with Boston College; incl EG’s response.

2007

Post Road Magazine – Fax to Mary Crane at Boston College re Post Road financials

2007

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road panel at Lesley MFA Program residency

2007
2007

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Post Road readers thanking them for their service and releasing them; incl replies from readers.

2007

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Pete Hausler and Lisa Selin Davis re featuring Post Road at KGB Emerging Memoirists Night

2007

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Mary Crane re Post Road and Boston College merger

2007

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham re approval of Post Road’s trademark

2007

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Michael Kimball re his “Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathan Bender” from Post Road 12 being chosen as an Honorable Mention for Best American Nonrequired Reading, edited by Dave Eggers

2007

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re “Down in the Valley” by Kevin Lutz from Post Road 13 and “Ghost of Ten” by Shara Sinor from Post Road 13 being selected as Honorable Mentions for Best American Essays, edited by David Foster Wallace

2007

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re the closing of POB 400951 in Cambridge

2007

Post Road Magazine – email from distributor Bernhard DeBoer announcing their closing

2007

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with David Ryan re whether or not Post Road should publish the same author in subsequent issues and the adoption of the two-year rule

2007

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Blake Butler re AWP Atlanta; incl postcard invites to Post Road party.

2007

Post Road Magazine – Pushcart nominations: “Alabama” by Murray Dunlap, “Nothing to Look at Here” by Richard Hoffman, “Ghost of Ten” by Shara Sinor, “Face for Radio” by Dora Malech, “Confessions of a Pilsner Drinker” by Rene Georg Vasicek, and “Land” by Mark Wisniewski

2007

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Michael Pilmer re Mark Mothersbaugh cover for Post Road 15

2007

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road fiction and poetry writing contest

2007

Post Road Magazine – Copy of Lesley/LVF/Post Road agreement

2007
2007
2007
2007

Correspondence – Garden Lakes

2008

Manuscript – Garden Lakes

2008

Correspondence – American Energies: Contemporary Writers and Their Achievements,Ambitions, and Aspirations, edited by JDC

2008

Correspondence – Talk Show at Fanzine.com – Vol II

2008
2008

Manuscript – Vernon Downs, annotated by JDC

2008
2008

Correspondence – Vernon Downs

2008

Correspondence – Talk Show at Fanzine.com – Vol I

2008
2008

Program and March 7 ticket for Tino Sehgal exhibit at the Guggenheim featuring Hillary Chute

2010

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.

2010
2010

Paris News article re Post Road contributor Heather Hartley’s book party at Shakespeare and Co

2010

Boston Book Festival 2010 Program Guide, Oct 16. (+)

2010

Boston Phoenix Fall Books Preview featuring Newtonville Books’s Small Press Saturday event

2010
2010

Boston Globe “Shelf Life” article re opening Used Book Annex in former Lizard’s Tale

2010

Amtrak maps for Lake Shore Limited + the Southwest Chief re train trip from Phoenix to Buffalo with Mary Cotton

2010
2010

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.”

2010

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.

2010

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.

2010

Fully-executed copies of permissions forms for No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (Dzanc)

2010

Photocopies of title pages of books signed to JDC and Mary Cotton – 2010. Books transferred to the Center for Fiction, Brooklyn. Volume I + Volume II.

2010
2010
2010

Correspondence – Garden Lakes

2011

Correspondence – Boston Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton, and Jaime Clarke

2011

Correspondence – Jonathan Lethem re The Ecstasy of Influence by JL

2011

Correspondence – American Kaleidoscope: A Novel by JDC

2011

Correspondence – Baum’s Bazaar

2011

Correspondence – Talk Show anthology

2011

Manuscript – The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC, final draft

2011

Correspondence – Post Road Magazine

2011

Correspondence – Conversations with Jonathan Lethem

2011

Correspondence – The Last Novel Ever Published

2011

Manuscript – “Carl, Inc.” by JDC, short story published by Atticus Review. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

2011

Correspondence – No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine

2011
2011

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

2011

Manuscript – American Kaleidoscope : A Memoir by JDC, first draft

2011

Manuscript – American Kaleidoscope : A Novel by JDC

2011

Boston Globe book section mention of Conversations with Jonathan Lethem

2011

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.

2011

Fully-executed copies of permissions forms for Conversations with Jonathan Lethem

2011

“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.

2011
2011
2011
2011

Spring/Summer ’11 University Press of Mississippi catalogue featuring paperback editions of Conversations with Jonathan Lethem

2011
2011

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

2011
2011

World Class Faker by John Laprade (+)

2011

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.

2011
2011

Invitation to Ploughshares’ 40th Anniversary party, hosted by Denis Leary

2011

Flyers for Massachusetts Cultural Council fellows and finalists reading at Newtonville Books on April 5

2011

Boston Phoenix article re Small Press Saturday at Newtonville Books

2011

Boston Book Festival 2011 program guide (+)

2011

Letter from the rare book room at Boston University re donation of first editions

2011
2011

Correspondence – Poor Man’s Gatsby: A Memoir by JDC

2012

Correspondence – Garden Lakes

2012

Correspondence – Boston Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton, and Jaime Clarke

2012

Manuscript – Poor Man’s Gatsby: A Memoir by JDC

2012

Manuscript – Vernon Downs, or The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC

2012

Correspondence – New American Canon project re author’s influences

2012

Correspondence – ECW Press re JDC idea for novelizing the Pet Shop Boys film It Couldn’t Happen Here

2012

Correspondence – Talk Show anthology

2012

Correspondence – Jonathan Lethem re co-editing JL proposed Hitchcock anthology titled Fixing Hitchcock

2012

Correspondence – Newtonville Books’s move to 10 Langley Place, Newton Centre

2012

Correspondence – The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC (novel)

2012

Manuscript – The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC, including April 18 editorial letter from Kate McKean at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency

2012

Correspondence – Post Road Magazine

2012

Boston Book Festival 2012 program guide (+)

2012
2012
2012
2012
2012

Spring 2012 issue of The Paris Review featuring interview with Bret Easton Ellis

2012
2012

Manuscript – Bound first draft of Boston Noir 2: The Classics

2012
2012
2012

Fully-executed contract dated December 10, 2011 between Akashic Books and Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton, and Jaime Clarke re Boston Noir 2: The Classics

2012

Screenshot of Harvard Bookstore listing for Boston Noir 2 event

2012
2012
2012

Boston Globe Arts section “To Do List” featuring Boston Noir 2 reading at Harvard Bookstore

2012
2012
2012
2012
2012

Letter from The Center for Fiction asking Mary Cotton to judge the Center’s annual Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize

2012
2012
2012

Boston Globe piece by Eugenia Williamson re lit mags, incl Post Road mention; also Boston Noir 2 on local bestseller list.

2012
2012

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.

2012

Boston Globe Books section piece on Newtonville Books front counter made of books

2012
2012
2012

Boston Globe piece on Boston Noir 2 events at Harvard Bookstore and Newtonville Books

2012
2012
2012
2012

Correspondence – Post Road Magazine

2013

Correspondence – Talk Show anthology

2013
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