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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

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
1991

Manuscript – “A House Divided.” Short Story. Typed. Pgs 1-6.

1992
1992
1992
1992

Manuscript – “Urbana.”  Short story. Typed, pgs 1-42. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1993
1993
1993

Manuscript – “St. Janice.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-8.

1993
1993
1993

Correspondence – Persona co-fiction editor Lavinia Spalding

1993
1993

Manuscript – “Waiting for Christie.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11.

1993
1993

Manuscript – “Urbana.”  Short story. Typed, pgs 1-18. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1994
1994

Manuscript – “A Complete Gentleman.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-34. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1994
1994

Manuscript – “Pleasure Island.”  Short story. Typed, pgs 1-20. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1994

Manuscript – “Shane of Lubbock.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16.

1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994

JDC application to the Bennington College Low-Residency MFA program dated October 11, 1994

1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994

May-June: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #7, Phoenix, AZ

1994
1994

Fall: 4236 N. 103rd Ave, #7, Phoenix, AZ

1994
1994
1995

Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier.”

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – Essay – “Building a Better Character (In 90 Days or Less).”  Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – January 1995 workshop – “Urbana.”  Annotated by Reginald McKnight. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1995
1995
1995
1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Don DeLillo’s White Noise.”

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – June Workshop – “Pleasure Island.” Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1995
1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ethan Canin’s Star Food.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Center by Amy Hempel.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “I Would Have Saved Them If I Could by Leonard Michaels.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Anton Chekhov’s The Shooting Party.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “David Foster Wallace’s Girl With Curious Hair.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Madison Smartt Bell.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “A Stranger in this World, stories by Kevin Canty.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “U&I by Nicholson Baker.”

1995

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.)

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – ‘Shane of Lubbock” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk; includes alternate version, typed, pgs 1-3.

1995

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.)

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “World Gone Water” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Airships by Barry Hannah.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino.”

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “The Vegetable King” – Novel excerpt. Typed, pgs 1-44. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis.”

1995

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.)

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover.”

1995

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Sportswriter by Richard Ford.”

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “Last” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-2. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “Unsaid” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-7. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “Anerotic” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-5. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “From Our New York Office” – Short story. Typed, one page.

1995

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.)

1995

Manuscript – Bennington – “Monthly Payments’ – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.

1995
1995

Correspondence – Charles Bock

1996

Correspondence – Amy Hempel

1996
1996

Correspondence – Douglas Bauer

1996

Correspondence – Fiona McCrae at Graywolf Press

1996

Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

1996

Letter from Chelsea Magazine enclosing payment for publication of “A Complete Gentleman” in Chelsea #59; incl color copy of check.

1996
1996
Loading all Entries...
Loading all Entries...
O What Fun We'll Have! O the Times!
The Ambitions and Adventures of
Jaime Clarke
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.