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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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
Chute, Hillary
Misc Adventures
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.
Birkerts, Sven
Newtonville Books
Paris News article re Post Road contributor Heather Hartley’s book party at Shakespeare and Co
Post Road Magazine
Boston Book Festival 2010 Program Guide, Oct 16. (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Boston Phoenix Fall Books Preview featuring Newtonville Books’s Small Press Saturday event
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Boston Globe “Shelf Life” article re opening Used Book Annex in former Lizard’s Tale
Newtonville Books
Amtrak maps for Lake Shore Limited + the Southwest Chief re train trip from Phoenix to Buffalo with Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
Misc Adventures
Newtonville Books
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.”
Perrotta, Tom
Boston Book Festival
Post Road Magazine
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.
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
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.
Ryan, David
Breen, Susan
Post Road Magazine
Fully-executed copies of permissions forms for No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (Dzanc)
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Fall 2009 article from Boston College Magazine titled “Post Road‘s New Address” re Post Road transition to Boston College
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Correspondence – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence – Boston Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton, and Jaime Clarke
Cotton, Mary
Lehane, Dennis
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Correspondence – Jonathan Lethem re The Ecstasy of Influence by JL
Lethem, Jonathan
Correspondence – American Kaleidoscope: A Novel by JDC
Literary Journey
Correspondence – Baum’s Bazaar
Baum's Bazaar
Correspondence – Talk Show anthology
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Manuscript – The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC, final draft
The Last Novel Ever Published
Correspondence – Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence – Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Correspondence – The Last Novel Ever Published
The Last Novel Ever Published
Manuscript – “Carl, Inc.” by JDC, short story published by Atticus Review. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Atticus Review
Literary Journey
Correspondence – No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Correspondence re: The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC, with contributions from Amanda Eyre Ward, Ben Schrank, Nathaniel Rich, Elizabeth Searle, Adam Langer, Heidi Julavits, Victor LaValle, Neil LaBute, Mary-Beth Hughes, Aimee Bender, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Joshua Furst, Ed Park, Samantha Hunt, Roxana Robinson, David Leavitt, Sam Lipsyte, Allison Lynn, and James Scott
The Last Novel Ever Published
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
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Manuscript – American Kaleidoscope : A Memoir by JDC, first draft
Literary Journey
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Manuscript – American Kaleidoscope : A Novel by JDC
Literary Journey
Boston Globe book section mention of Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
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.
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Fully-executed copies of permissions forms for Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
“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.
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Bock, Charles
Baum's Bazaar
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Post Road Magazine
No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
Spring/Summer ’11 University Press of Mississippi catalogue featuring paperback editions of Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Moody, Rick
Baum's Bazaar
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
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Searle, Elizabeth
Baum's Bazaar
World Class Faker by John Laprade (+)
Laprade, John
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.
Johnston, Bret Anthony
Wallace, David Foster
Newtonville Books
Invitation to Ploughshares’ 40th Anniversary party, hosted by Denis Leary
Misc Adventures
Flyers for Massachusetts Cultural Council fellows and finalists reading at Newtonville Books on April 5
Newtonville Books
Boston Phoenix article re Small Press Saturday at Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Boston Book Festival 2011 program guide (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Letter from the rare book room at Boston University re donation of first editions
Newtonville Books
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Poor Man’s Gatsby: A Memoir by JDC
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Correspondence – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence – Boston Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton, and Jaime Clarke
Cotton, Mary
Lehane, Dennis
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Manuscript – Poor Man’s Gatsby: A Memoir by JDC
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Manuscript – Vernon Downs, or The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC
Vernon Downs: A Novel
The Last Novel Ever Published
Correspondence – New American Canon project re author’s influences
Influenced By
Correspondence – ECW Press re JDC idea for novelizing the Pet Shop Boys film It Couldn’t Happen Here
Pet Shop Boys
Literary Journey
Unrealized Projects
Correspondence – Talk Show anthology
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Correspondence – Jonathan Lethem re co-editing JL proposed Hitchcock anthology titled Fixing Hitchcock
Lethem, Jonathan
Correspondence – Newtonville Books’s move to 10 Langley Place, Newton Centre
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC (novel)
The Last Novel Ever Published
Manuscript – The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC, including April 18 editorial letter from Kate McKean at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency
The Last Novel Ever Published
Correspondence – Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Boston Book Festival 2012 program guide (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Lehane, Dennis
Cotton, Mary
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Cooper, T
Baum's Bazaar
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem
Misc Adventures
Spring 2012 issue of The Paris Review featuring interview with Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Brockmeier, Kevin
Baum's Bazaar
Manuscript – Bound first draft of Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Cotton, Mary
Lehane, Dennis
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Park, Ed
Baum's Bazaar
Fully-executed contract dated December 10, 2011 between Akashic Books and Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton, and Jaime Clarke re Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Cotton, Mary
Lehane, Dennis
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Screenshot of Harvard Bookstore listing for Boston Noir 2 event
Barnes, Linda
Gawande, Atul
Ryan, David
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Boucher, Christopher
Post Road Magazine
Coolidge Award: An Evening with Viggo Mortensen, incl tickets, filmography postcard, program, and March 2 Boston Globe Arts section re celebration + pic of Mary Cotton and VM
Cotton, Mary
Mortensen, Viggo
Misc Adventures
Boston Globe Arts section “To Do List” featuring Boston Noir 2 reading at Harvard Bookstore
Barnes, Linda
Gawande, Atul
Ryan, David
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Cotton, Mary
Misc Adventures
Newtonville Books
Hausler, Pete
Misc Adventures
Lehane, Dennis
Cotton, Mary
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Misc Adventures
Letter from The Center for Fiction asking Mary Cotton to judge the Center’s annual Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Diamant, Anita
Grossman, Lev
Hoffman, Alice
Lennon, J. Robert
Livesey, Margot
Russo, Richard
Searle, Elizabeth
Shepard, Jim
Maguire, Gregory
Mattison, Alice
Newtonville Books
Boston Globe piece by Eugenia Williamson re lit mags, incl Post Road mention; also Boston Noir 2 on local bestseller list.
Lehane, Dennis
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
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.
Harding, Paul
Meyers, Randy Susan
Literary Journey
Boston Globe Books section piece on Newtonville Books front counter made of books
Newtonville Books
Lehane, Dennis
Cotton, Mary
Boston Globe piece on Boston Noir 2 events at Harvard Bookstore and Newtonville Books
Barnes, Linda
Donnelly, Tanya
Gawande, Atul
Leone, Marianne
Ryan, David
Newtonville Books
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence – Talk Show anthology
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – Sections for novel version of A Complete Gentleman. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – Bennington – January 1996 residency workshop – “This Way Is Over.” (Rewrite of “Monthly Payments.”) Short story. Typed, pgs 1-17. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Renters.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-18. Annotated by Amy Hempel. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “My Literary Apprenticeship.” Essay. Typed, pgs 1-20. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Typical by Padgett Powell.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Ice at the Bottom of the World by Mark Richard.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “An Amateur’s Guide to Night by Mary Robison.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – On Sharon Olds’s poetry.
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Orbit from The Spectacle of the Body by Noy Holland.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – On Steps by Jerzy Kosinski, Speedboat by Renata Adler, and Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick.
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ray by Barry Hannah.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “My Hard Bargain by Walter Kirn.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – June 1996 Workshop. “Renters.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-15. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – June 1996 Workshop. “Renters.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-15. Annotated by Maria Flook. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Flook, Maria
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Signaling.” (Rewrite of “Renters.”) Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Stardust, 7-Eleven, Route 57, A&W, And So Forth by Patricia Lear.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons.”
Bennington College
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Into the Great Wide Open by Kevin Canty.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Lights, Camera, Darkness.” (Later titles: “Screen Test” + “This, Too Stars You”) Short story. Typed, pgs 1-13. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Andrew Turnball.”
Bennington College
Letter dated October 22, 1996 from the Mississippi Review accepting “We’re So Famous” for publication. (+)
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Manuscript – Bennington – “Ex-Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-17. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Rock Springs by Richard Ford.”
Bennington College
Stoneboy Press
Manuscript – Bennington – “What You’ll Find When the Tide Comes In.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – “We’re So Famous.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-7. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
We're So Famous: A Novel
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
October 24, 1996 contract with the Mississippi Review for the publication of “We’re So Famous”
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Morvern Callar by Alan Warner.”
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Stoneboy Press
We're So Famous: A Novel
October 31, 1996 letter from the Mississippi Review with page proofs for “We’re So Famous”
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, edited by JDC.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – JDC Graduate Lecture. w/letter from Bret Easton Ellis.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Bennington – Final thesis (Standard Deviation) review by Betsy Cox
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Standard Deviation
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, edited by BEE.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Bennington – Final thesis (Standard Deviation) second review by Bob Shacochis
Shacochis, Bob
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Standard Deviation
Robison, Mary
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Manuscript – Bennington – JDC Graduate Lecture. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, conducted in NYC in November 1996. Two microcassette tapes and transcript of interview.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
New York City
Literary Journey
AGNI Magazine
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
New York City
Literary Journey
Flook, Maria
Pushcart Prize
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Correspondence – Maria Flook
Flook, Maria
Correspondence – Frederick Barthelme
Barthelme, Frederick
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Literary Journey
Bennington College
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Manuscript – Bennington – Final version of JDC graduate lecture. Typed, pgs 1-16.
Bennington College
Correspondence – Pete Hausler (+)
Hausler, Pete
New York City
Literary Journey
Proposed table of contents for A Complete Gentleman (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman. Novel. First draft. Typed, pgs 1-136. Annotated by Bret Easton Ellis. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman. Novel. Second draft. Typed, pgs 1-126. Annotated by Bret Easton Ellis. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – “Wagering.” Short Story. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Literary Journey
Literary Journey
Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman. Novel. Final draft. Typed, pgs 1-175. Annotated by JDC. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – undated draft of A Complete Gentleman. Novel. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
Jan: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
June-Aug: 390 Westford Rd., Concord, MA
O the Places I've Lived!
Sept: Astoria, Queens
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
McKnight, Reginald
Rector, Liam
Cox, Betsy
Hempel, Amy
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
New York City
Correspondence – Rick Moody
Moody, Rick
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
New York City
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Correspondence – Maria Flook
Flook, Maria