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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

Correspondence – Askold Melnyczuk

1998

Correspondence – Liam Rector

1998

Time Out New York listing for Nov 8 KGB Reading with David Ryan

1998

Addendum to interview with Bret Easton Ellis – Transcript and BEE’s Notes; includes audiotape of interview.

1998

Correspondence – Amy Hempel

1998
1998
1998

Manuscript – “The Vegetable King.”  Short story.  Typed, pgs 1-14. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.) (Retitled: “The Flat Earth”)

1998
1998
1998
1998

Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

1998
1998
1998
1998

Manuscript – “The Loan.” Unfinished short story. Handwritten. One page.

1998

Manuscript – “I Guess This Is Goodbye, Then.”  Short story. Typed, pgs 1-17. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1998

Manuscript – “Kink.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-19.

1998
1998
1998
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1998
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1998
1998
1998
1998
1998
1998
1998

Misc. related to Bennington alum writing retreat at Davis Alumni House with David Ryan, Mike Rosovsky, Susan Breen, and Rebecca Boyd (Aug 9-Aug 13).

1998
1998
1998
1998

Jan-June 311 W. 6th Ave, NYC

1998
1998
1999
1999
1999

Correspondence – Liam Rector

1999

Correspondence – Douglas Bauer

1999

Correspondence – Amy Hempel

1999

Correspondence – Charles Bock

1999
1999
1999

Correspondence re the publication of “The Serial Lover” in AGNI.  Includes contract dated September 24, 1998 and July 1999 cover letter with galleys.

1999
1999

Harold Ober Associates profit sharing documents

1999

Correspondence re the all-interview issue of The Mississippi Review edited by JDC.  Includes drafts of interviews with Bret Easton Ellis, Rick Bass, Mary Gaitskill, Tim Gautreaux, Thom Jones, Rick Moody, and Padgett Powell.

1999

Manuscript – “Salt Lake City” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-12.

1999
1999

Invitation to Thomas C. Wallace‘s Halloween party at the Century Club

1999
1999
1999

Correspondence re the publication of “Lindy” in the 1999 Mississippi Review Prize Issue.  Includes contract dated November 23, 1999 and November 1999 galleys.

1999
1999

Correspondence re the publication of “Screen Test” (formerly “Sacrifice”) in Black Dirt.  Includes contract dated April 1999 and November 1999 galleys.

1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999

We’re So Famous – Draft and research material for novel

1999
1999
1999
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1999
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1999

Apr: 311 W. 6th Ave, NYC

1999
1999
1999

Dec: 245 E. 80th St., NYC

1999
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Time Out New York listing for April 9, 2000 “Mississippi Review Night” reading at KGB with David Ryan

2000
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Galapagos postcard advertising “Standard Deviation Night” – October 25, 2000

2000
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2000

Bloomsbury – JDC author photo

2000
2000

Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Claire McKinney re publicity for We’re So Famous

2000

Bloomsbury – Loose galleys for We’re So Famous

2000

Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Panagiotis Gianopoulos re We’re So Famous

2000

Bloomsbury – Loose galleys for We’re So Famous, corrected by JDC.

2000

Bloomsbury – Contract for We’re So Famous

2000

Correspondence – Douglas Bauer

2000
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