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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

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
2003
2003

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
2003

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

2003
2003

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
2003

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

2003
2003
2003

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
2003
2003
2003
2003
2003
2003

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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