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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

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Blind (EP) by John Laprade (+)

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road writing contests judged by Heidi Julavits (fiction) and Wes McNair (poetry)

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Post Road Magazine – The Review Review review of Post Road 16

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Post Road Magazine – Letter from Lesley University officially declining to renew agreement to publish Post Road

2008

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence from Ron McLarty re Post Road

2008

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Andre Balazs re Post Road becoming the house magazine at the Chateau Marmont

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Post Road MagazineBoston Globe article entitled “Literati have a nip with their authors” featuring Post Road mention

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Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re signing agreement with Boston College

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Post Road Magazine – Signed copies of Post Road/Boston College agreement

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road/Boston College merger

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Post Road Magazine – Flyers for Boston College Arts Festival Apr 23-25, featuring Post Road mention

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Post Road Magazine – Draft copies of Post Road/Boston College agreement

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Post Road Magazine – Signed Unanimous Consent of directors re Mary Cotton’s resignation from Post Road Board, dated May 1

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Post Road Magazine – email to editors re first meeting with Ricco Siasoco, Post Road’s new managing editor at Boston College

2008

Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to editors re uncertain future after Post Road 16

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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.

2008

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

2008

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

2008

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Debra Spark re her piece from Post Road 15 being listed as a Pushcart Prize Special Mention

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Post Road Magazine – Letter from Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts re Post Road

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Manuscript – Talk Show anthology

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Manuscript – Garden Lakes

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Correspondence – Talk Show at Fanzine.com

2009

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

2009

Manuscript – Vernon Downs

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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.

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JDC complimentary membership to the Friends of the Library at Boston University

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Program for Brattleboro Literary Festival, October 2-4, 2009

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Contract for panel appearance at Bennington College alum residency; including Benn event listing info and correspondence re panel with Sven Birkerts.

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Boston Book Festival Program Guide – October 24, 2009 (+)

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Tickets for Buffalo Tom at the Paradise Rock Club, June 26, 2009, with Tom Perrotta and Mary Granfield + Mary Cotton

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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.

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Correspondence – Vernon Downs

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Letter from Hannah Tinti re her reading at Newtonville Books for the paperback of The Good Thief

2009

Boston Globe “Shelf Life” column re the Celebrity Bookclub at Newtonville Books

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Correspondence – Talk Show anthology

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Boston Globe article by Margot Livesey titled “Following Boston’s Other Historical Trail” incl mention of Newtonville Books

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Boston Globe article titled “Unchained Success: Independent Bookstores Holding Up vs. Big Rivals” incl mention of Newtonville Books

2009

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.

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Correspondence – University Press of Mississippi re Conversations with Jonathan Lethem

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Boston Globe article re the creation of the Celebrity Bookclub

2009

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.

2009

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

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road transition to BC

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road anthology selections, Vol I

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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.

2009

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road anthology selections, Vol II

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Post Road Magazine – Contract with Dzanc Books for Post Road anthology

2009

Post Road Magazine – Queries to publishers re the Post Road anthology

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Correspondence — Garden Lakes

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Correspondence — Conversations with Jonathan Lethem Vol I

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Correspondence — Conversations with Jonathan Lethem Vol II

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Correspondence — Post Road re Boston College transition

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Correspondence — Talk Show anthology

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Correspondence — No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (Post Road anthology published by Dzanc Books)

2010

Manuscript — Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, ed by JDC; incl JDC editor questionnaire and permission form templates

2010

Contract dated September 30, 2009 between JDC and University Press of Mississippi for Conversations with Jonathan Lethem

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Correspondence — Vernon Downs

2010

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

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Manuscript — Garden Lakes

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Manuscript — American Kaleidoscope: A Memoir by JDC

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Winter 2009 Paris Review featuring Newtonville Books First Editions ad

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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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to IPD re distribution

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

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

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Agented rejections for Scavengers from HarperCollins and Warner Books

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

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

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Post Road Magazine – Subscription postcards and subscription envelope mailers

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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

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19816 N. 49th Drive, Glendale, AZ

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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

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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

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“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

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“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

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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

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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

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“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

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

2003

Correspondence – Alden Jones

2003
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