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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

Bloomsbury – JDC correspondence with Publishers Weekly re review of We’re So Famous

2001

Bloomsbury – Shout Magazine review of We’re So Famous in April 2001 issue

2001
2001

Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Email from Panagiotis Gianopoulos re Publishers Weekly

2001
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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous by Lesley Allen

2001

Bloomsbury – Reviews of We’re So Famous from various college newspapers

2001

Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous by Bernard Carpinter

2001

Bloomsbury – Inside.com article titled “Author Gives a Bad Review to PW Review,” re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous + Time Magazine.com article titled “Poor Sport” re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous

2001

Bloomsbury – Book Review Digest summary of We’re So Famous. August 2001.

2001
2001

Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Arizona State University State Press Magazine profile of JDC.  April 19, 2001.

2001

Bloomsbury – We’re So FamousWest Valley View article re royalty donation to Literary Volunteers of Maricopa County.  May 23, 2001.

2001
2001

Bloomsbury – Sunday Herald (Glasgow) review of We’re So Famous, dated June 24, 2001

2001

Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in Big Issue, June 25, 2001

2001

Bloomsbury – Authors on the Web article re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous

2001
2001

Bloomsbury – Library Journal articled titled “Don’t Kill the Reviewer” by Francine Fialkoff re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous

2001

Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to Bill Henderson at Pushcart re Post Road’s Pushcart Nominations

2001
2001

Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in Cleo, dated September 2001

2001

Post Road Magazine – Email from Larry Dark, series editor of O. Henry Prize Stories re Post Road

2001

Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in NW, dated September 3, 2001

2001

Bloomsbury – Binder re We're So Famous college reading tour with Fuzzy. Includes Fuzzy CD.

2001
2001

Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to IPD re distribution

2001

Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in Attitude Magazine, dated July 2001

2001

Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – audio of appearance on Ted Simons’s morning show on MIX 96.9 to promote royalty donation.  Phoenix, AZ.

2001

Agented rejections for Scavengers from HarperCollins and Warner Books

2001
2001

Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to Katrina Kenison at Best American Short Stories encl with Post Road 3

2001

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence from A.E. Hotchner and Edward Hoagland re writing a recommendation for Post Road

2001

Post Road Magazine – Subscription postcards and subscription envelope mailers

2001
2001

Post Road Magazine – Oct 23 Lizard Watch, the newsletter for Newtonville Books, incl mention of NVB’s sponsoring a party at Audubon Circle in Boston on November 3 for the release of Post Road 3; incl Tim Huggins Post Road business card + Alden Jones Post Road business card

2001

19816 N. 49th Drive, Glendale, AZ

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Postcard from Harold Ober Associates acknowledging receipt of Standard Deviation story collection by JDC

2002
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Post Road Magazine – Letter from Bill Henderson at Pushcart Press re the selection of “Cock Robin” by Miranda Field from PR for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize XXVII; incl contract signed by JDC on behalf of Post Road

2002

Post Road Magazine – June 11 Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books incl mention of release of Post Road 4

2002
2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchanges between JDC, David Ryan, Mike Rosovsky, Tim Huggins, Sven Birkerts and Eric Grunwald of AGNI, Christina Thompson and Erika Namaka from The Harvard Review re the Boston Publishers Consortium; incl BPC rate sheet.

2002

Draft and research material for Garden Lakes. Binder. incl hand-drawn map of Garden Lakes

2002
2002

Manuscript – Garden Lakes – Novel.  First draft.  Typed, pgs 1-267.  Annotated by JDC.

2002
2002

Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Response to Contemporary Authors questionnaire

2002
2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from Larry Dark, series editor for O. Henry Prize Stories announcing his retirement from the series and the short-listing of “White Square” by Brian Evenson from Post Road 3 and “Homestay” by Rachel Sherman from Post Road 2 for the 2002 volume

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from Victoria Clausi re Post Road panel at the Bennington summer residency; incl panel description.

2002
2002

Post Road Magazine – October call for nominations for Pushcart Prize XXVII

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Tim Huggins re the idea of Post Road reprinting out-of-print books

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between Barry Gifford and JDC re the copyright in BG’s recommendation

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Jonathan Lethem re JDC interview of JL for Post Road

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Kevin Canty re writing a recommendation

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from Laura Furman introducing her as the new series editor for O. Henry Prize Stories

2002

Post Road Magazine – Sept 17 Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books, announcing the release of Post Road 5 and a release party on Oct 26 at Audubon Circle Bar & Grill

2002

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence between JDC and Cat Parnell re the operation of Post Road

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to Karen Braziller at Persea Books re distributing Post Road in the wake of DeBoer losing its chain affiliation

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from Mike Rosovsky announcing Post Road’s selection as a “Hot Read” in Boston Phoenix‘s magazine Stuff at Night; incl printout of “Hot 100” list.

2002

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Hignell Book Printers re printing Post Road

2002

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road website with Ricco Siasoco

2002

Post Road Magazine – Letter from JDC to Fiona McCrae at Graywolf Books re a partnership to publish and distribute Post Road; incl response from FM.

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Catherine Parnell about becoming Post Road’s managing editor; incl CP’s Post Road business card.

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC re the idea of a multi-lit mag release party; incl response from M.T. Anderson from 3rd Bed

2002

Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence regarding Post Road’s inclusion in Booksense’s White Box Program

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from Cat Parnell to Post Road editors re upcoming Associated Writing Program conference in Baltimore, including schedule for working the Post Road/Salamander table at AWP.

2002
2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Professor Zoran Kuzmanovich at Davidson College re the use of “Lolita A-Z” in Post Road 5

2002
2002

Post Road Magazine – Postcard invites for Post Road 5 release party on Sat, Oct 26 at Audubon Circle Restaurant and Bar in Boston; incl flyer.

2002

“At the end of the semester, I often give away literary journals to my students–I want them to know about the range of choices and part of my job is to help show them this world. But I can’t give away Post Road! I have all the issues in my office and every semester I go over the stack to try to pick one to give up and I just can’t do it. Each issue is just packed with goodness and all I can do is show my copies to my students and then protectively snatch them back!” — Aimee Bender

2002

Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence and contract relating to Post Road being distributed by Ingram Periodicals

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from Elizabeth Giddens at Harper’s Magazine re reprinting “Behold the Couch, in Sorrow, Unemployed” by Will Eno from Post Road; incl photocopy of Table of Contents and reprinted piece from Feb 2003 issue of Harper’s.

2002

Post Road Magazine – Pushcart Prize nominations as voted by the editors:  “Last Last Last” by Nicholas Montenarano, “A Huge, Old Radio” by Ander Monson, “Digression: Listerine: The Life and Opinions of Laurence Sterne” by John Wesley Harding, “Hip Hop High: Mainstream Black Culture in the White Suburbs” by Lauren Sandler, “How to Get the Love You Want” by Sarah Fox, and “What They Talked About and What They Said” by John Ruff

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to Mike Rosovsky re the history of Post Road for Grub Street panel

2002

“I trumpet Post Road not out of kindness but out of the purely selfish pleasure I take in a frisky, alert, independent magazine whose words and images spring off the page and sometimes turn a somersault or two before they stick their landings in my brain. I also admire the magazine’s artistic promiscuity in embracing whatever’s good wherever it comes from however it works and whomever it’s by.” — Walter Kirn

2002

“The editors’ enthusiasm is palpable; they consistently provide a lively home for writing worth reading.” — Amy Hempel

2002

Post Road is the little magazine so many writers dream of when they start out, but have trouble finding when they grow up. It’s like those Paris-based publications that discovered Ezra Eliot or TS Pound or someone. But it’s not; it’s based here, it publishes fresh exciting talent, and it’s helping keep the indie lit scene alive in America.” — Darin Strauss

2002

Post Road, from its inception, has been an exotic and intelligent literary treat. I always like to see what they come up with each issue, and they never fail to surprise, entertain, and enlighten.” — Jonathan Ames

2002

“I always read Post Road with great enthusiasm. In its stealthy, unassuming way, it has become one of the most reliable and ambitious literary magazines in America.”– Rick Moody

2002

Post Road is one of the most interesting and exciting literary magazines out there. If you care about reading and writing, do yourself a favor and check it out.”–Tom Perrotta

2002

Post Road has the goods. I not only fall on them and read them like hot news when they come in the door, I keep them lined up on my shelf like little books, because that’s what they are.”– Jonathan Lethem

2002

Post Road maps the way to the freshest and funkiest literary territories. As the group The Postal Service does for music, Post Road fuses eclectic elements into something whole and wholly new.” – Elizabeth Searle

2002

“Magazines like Post Road are carrying more and more of the load when it comes to free thinking and dissent. And for that we all should be bottomlessly grateful. — Jim Shepard

2002

Post Road is a jewel in a bucket of stones.” — Barry Gifford

2002
2002

Various train schedules, airline tickets, Eurail passes, etc., for Clarke Brothers’ European vacation.

2003

Correspondence – Alden Jones

2003
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