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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

Correspondence – The Last Novel Ever Published

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Manuscript – The Melissa Process (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

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Manuscript – Garden Lakes

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Correspondence – Vernon Downs/US edition (Roundabout Press)

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Correspondence – New American Canon project

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Correspondence – Vernon Downs/UK edition (Bloomsbury)

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Manuscript – The Last Novel Ever Published

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Correspondence — re proposed Hitchcock anthology titled Fixing Hitchcock, edited by JDC and Jonathan Lethem

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Contract dated Sept 30 with PFP Publishing re Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers; incl copy of agreement with Danny Jock re the illustrations.

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Finished copy of Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers

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Contract dated March 23 with Roundabout Press re Vernon Downs, incl Nov 28 email from Dan Pope granting Canada to Bloomsbury UK.

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Manuscript – Vernon Downs (penultimate version)

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Manuscript – Vernon Downs (draft)

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Tickets to Boston Book Festival keynote featuring Salman Rushdie

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Boston Book Festival 2013 Program Guide (+)

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Porter Square Books Events Program featuring October 7 event Roundtable with Post Road Magazine, featuring Laura van den Berg and Dan Chelotti

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Livreshebdo.fr article re JDC and Amazon

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Alex Beam column in the Boston Globe entitled “Amazon hate-fest isn’t for me” re JDC website www.pleasedontbuymybookonamazon.com

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Le Figaro article re JDC and Amazon

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Article re JDC and Amazon in Spanish language newspaper El Confidential

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Article re JDC and Amazon in Spanish language newspaper Contra el promedio Mexicano

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Danish web article (bearbooks.se) re JDC and Amazon

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Danish news article (SehaBooks) on JDC and Amazon

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Israel Herald article on JDC and Amazon

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Digital Reader piece entitled “How Not to Succeed as an Author: Tell Readers Please Don’t Buy My Book on Amazon”

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Hebrew article re JDC and Amazon

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Notes From the Engine Room re JDC and Amazon

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Marketing Daily piece re JDC and Amazon

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Brookline Booksmith screenshot of Nov 2 event for Boston Noir 2

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Correspondence – re proposed Hitchcock anthology titled Fixing Hitchcock, edited by JDC and Jonathan Lethem

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Correspondence – New American Canon material edited for Believer column

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Tom Perrotta blurb for Vernon Downs: “Vernon Downs is a gripping, hypnotically written and unnerving look at the dark side of literary adulation. Jaime Clarke’s tautly suspenseful novel is a cautionary tale for writers and readers alike–after finishing it, you may start to think that J.D. Salinger had the right idea after all.”

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Gary Shteynbart blurb for Vernon Downs: “Moving and edgy in just the right way. Love (or lack of) and Family (or lack of) is at the heart of this wonderfully obsessive novel.”

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Correspondence – Bloomsbury UK re Vernon Downs

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Correspondence – Post Road Magazine

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Dana Spiotta blurb for Vernon Downs: “Vernon Downs is a fascinating and sly tribute to a certain fascinating and sly writer, but this novel also perfectly captures the lonely distortions of a true obsession.”

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Charles Yu blurb for Vernon Downs: “An engrossing novel about longing and impersonation, which is to say, a story about the distance between persons, distances within ourselves. Clarke’s prose is infused with music and intelligence and deep feeling.”

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Correspondence – Vernon Downs

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Matthew Specktor blurb for Vernon Downs: “All strong literature stems from obsession. Vernon Downs belongs to a tradition that includes Nicholson Baker’s U and I, Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage, and—for that matter—Pale Fire. What makes Clarke’s excellent novel stand out isn’t just its rueful intelligence, or its playful semi-veiling of certain notorious literary figures, but its startling sadness. Vernon Downs is first rate.”

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Laura van den Berg blurb for Vernon Downs: “Vernon Downs is a brilliant meditation on obsession, art, and celebrity. Charlie Marten’s mounting fixation with the titular Vernon is not only driven by the burn of heartbreak and the lure of fame, but also a lost young man’s struggle to locate his place in the world. Vernon Downs is an intoxicating novel, and Clarke is a dazzling literary talent.”

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Bound mock-up of The Melissa Process (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

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Manuscript – World Gone Water, edited by Mary Cotton

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Correspondence – Bloomsbury UK re World Gone Water

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Correspondence – Bloomsbury UK re We’re So Famous ebook

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Contract dated September 24 with Roundabout Press re World Gone Water

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Book trailer for Vernon Downs, narrated by Academy award-winning actor Chris Cooper featuring Aimee Bender, Elisa Albert, Atul Gawande, Ramona Ausubel, Alison Bechdel, Ben Marcus, Charles Bock, Christopher Boucher, Mark Conway, T Cooper, Elizabeth Crane, Michael Dahlie, Tanya Donelly, Jennifer duBois, James Fuerst, Julia Glass, Lev Grossman, Holly LeCraw, James Scott, Leslie Jamison, Joanna Hershon, Jonathan Wilson, Owen King, Allison Lynn, Amy MacKinnon, Gregory Maguire, Rebecca Makkai, Margot Livesey, Jill McCorkle, Paul Harding, Marianne Leone, Paul Yoon, Ivy Pochoda, Henriette Power, Jamie Quatro, Nelly Reifler, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Jim Shepard, Karen Shepard, Amy Sohn, Anna Solomon, Jessica Treadway, Dawn Tripp, Laura van den Berg, Wesley Stace, Joan Wickersham, Mary-Beth Hughes, Mary Sullivan, Myla Goldberg, Amy Hempel, Adam Wilson, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Jonathan Ames, Sam Lipsyte, David James Poissant, Tom Perrotta, and Charles Yu

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Manuscript – World Gone Water, edited by Dan Pope

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Correspondence – World Gone Water

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Roundabout Press galley letter re World Gone Water

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Receipt from Soho House (West Hollywood) dinner with Bret Easton Ellis

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Correspondence – Amy Hempel

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Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Robert Bookman at Creative Artists Agency re the film rights to We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – edited manuscript for We’re So Famous; incl May 1, 2000 letter from Panio Gianopolous.

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Bloomsbury – Hartford Courant piece entitled “What’s to Love: Writers Pick Their Favorites” featuring We’re So Famous recommendation by Frederick Barthelme

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Correspondence – Askold Melnyczuk

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Correspondence – Maria Flook

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Correspondence – Bob Shacochis

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Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Joel Gotler at Artists Management Group re the film rights to We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Brian Lipson at Endeavor LA re the film rights to We’re So Famous

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Correspondence – Mary Robison

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Correspondence – Charles Bock

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Shout Magazine – November 2000 issue featuring Part Two of serialization of “Cheshires” by JDC. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

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Shout Magazine – October 2000 issue featuring Part One of serialization of “Cheshires” by JDC. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

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Correspondence with Jordan Heller at Shout Magazine; includes contracts for articles and copies of receipts for payment.

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Correspondence – Karen Braziller at Persea Books

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Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

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Galleys from Xlibris for self-published novel A Complete Gentleman. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

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Post Road Magazine – Email to editors re form wording for soliciting work and recommendations

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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Correspondence re college reading tour with Fuzzy

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence relating to the production of Post Road 1, including corr with editors about the collection of material

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Letter from Bettina Schrewe Literary Scouting agency about Bret Easton Ellis oral biography

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re the release parties for Post Road 1: Fri, Step 15 at Dibrova Social Club in NYC and Sat, Sept 16 at The Joshua Tree in Boston; incl press release about the parties

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road website

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re instituting a slush pile

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re advertising in Post Road, incl corr with other literary magazines about swapping ads

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re the Potpourri section, renamed the Etcetera Section with JDC as editor

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re not having book reviews in Post Road

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re how to collect material from editors

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Post Road Magazine – Email asking editors to come to the print shop to help assemble Post Road 1

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Post Road Magazine contract template

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re a policy against publishing friends, Benningtonites, etc.

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Correspondence – Jamie Clarke; incl CD for band Perfect

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Drawing of JDC from Hollywood Wax Museum

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Correspondence – Knox Burger

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Postcard from Harold Ober Associates acknowledging receipt of Scavengers

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Bret Easton Ellis blurb for We're So Famous: “Jaime Clarke pulls off a sympathetic act of sustained male imagination: entering the minds of innocent teenage girls dreaming of fame. A glibly surreal world where the only thing wanted is notoriety and all you really desire leads to celebrity and where stardom is the only point of reference. What’s new about this novel is how unconsciously casual the characters’ drives are. This lust is as natural to them as being American-it’s almost a birthright.”

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Jonathan Ames blurb for We're So Famous: “Darkly and pinkly comic, this is the story of a trio of teenage American girls and their pursuit of the three big Ms of American life: Music, Movies and Murder. An impressive debut by a talented young novelist.”

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Bob Shacochis blurb for We're So Famous: “Jaime Clarke is a masterful illusionist; in his deft hands, emptiness seems full, teenage pathos appears sassy and charming. We’re So Famous is a blithe, highly entertaining indictment of the permanent state of adolescence that trademarks our culture, a made-for-TV world where innocence is hardly a virtue, ambition barely a value system.”

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Bloomsbury – Village Voice listing for We’re So Famous reading at Astor Place Barnes & Noble, April 11, 2001.

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Bloomsbury – Nzoom.com review of We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – Postcard from Mary Robison re We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – Brophy College Preparatory alumni magazine, August 2001, includes announcement of We’re So Famous royalty donation to Literary Volunteers of Maricopa County.

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Bloomsbury – Letter from Amy Hempel re We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – Brophy College Preparatory alumni magazine, January 2001, includes announcement of publication of We’re So Famous.

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Bloomsbury – Kirkus review of We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Leslie Epstein re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – New York Times Book Review capsule review of We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – Publishers Weekly review of We’re So Famous

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