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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

2019

Manuscript – Garden Lakes screenplay

2019
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Manuscript – World Gone Water screenplay

2019

Correspondence – Minor Characters, a collection based on minor characters from JDC novels, featuring original stories 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, with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem, and an introduction by Laura van den Berg, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2021.

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Boston Book Festival Program Guide. October 19-20, 2019. (+)

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Manuscript – Minor Characters, first draft

2019

Correspondence – Radio play adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery

2019

Correspondence – Stephanie Duncan leaving Bloomsbury and moving Minor Characters to another publisher

2019

Correspondence – Minor Characters re move from Bloomsbury to Roundabout Press

2020

JDC contract dated June 17 with Roundabout Press for Minor Characters

2020

Correspondence – Minor Characters – Contracts

2020
2020

Correspondence – Minor Characters – General correspondence

2020

Manuscript – Roundabout Press omnibus including Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes – Loose galleys

2020

Manuscript – Minor Characters – Loose galleys

2020

Roundabout Press contracts with contributors for Minor Characters; incl Roundabout license with Bloomsbury to reprint Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes in omnibus.

2020

Minor Characters covers for galley and finished book + correspondence with contributors seeking approval for asterisk cover idea

2020
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Boston Globe article entitled “This holiday season, retailers are thinking inside the box” incl mention of Newtonville Books Holiday Care Package program created by Mary Cotton

2020

Newton Tab article entitled “Newton Neighbors Helping Neighbors group grows over 3600 members” incl mention of Newtonville Books gift bag program created by Mary Cotton

2020

Literary Hub newsletter featuring “A Way to Beat Mortality” by Shelly Oria from Minor Characters + copy of story published by The Literary Hub

2020
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Boston Globe article entitled “These thoughtful, last-minute gifts arrive in an instant, no mailing required” re shopping at Bookshop.org

2020
2020

Roundabout Press galley letter for Minor Characters

2020

Ad campaign on Literary Hub for Minor Characters galley promotion

2020
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2021
2021

Boston Globe article entitled “Umass grad’s site is helping independent bookstores hold their own against Amazon” re Bookshop.org, featuring quote from Mary Cotton

2021
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Boston Globe article entitled “How Mary Cotton found love and a career at Newtonville Books”

2021
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Boston Globe article re Newtonville Books hosting Boston Globe Book Club featuring Things That Grow by Meredith Goldstein

2021
2021

Gift agreement with John J. Burns library at Boston College for Post Road Archives

2021

Shelf Awareness newsletter featuring quote from Mary Cotton “The Indie Bookstore as a Very Optimistic Space.”

2021
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2022
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2022

Roundabout Press galley letter for Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle by Jaime Clarke/What Was the Question Again? by Charlie Martens

2022

Boston Globe article entitled “We’re All in This Together: After weathering pandemic, Newtonville Books signs a new 10-year lease.”

2022
2022

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, (praise for), Vernon Downs, (book trailer narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper + praise for), World Gone Water, (book trailer narrated by Thora Birch + praise for), and Garden Lakes, (book trailer narrated by the author + praise for), and the memoir Poor Man’s Gatsby (praise for), published as Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in IG Publishing’s Bookmarked series; editor of the story collection Minor Characters, (sneak peek), and The Last Novel Ever Published, as well as the anthologies Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, 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), and Boston Noir 2: The Classics (with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton). 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. 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.

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Correspondence – Amy Hempel

2000

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

2000

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

2000

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

2000

Correspondence – Askold Melnyczuk

2000
2000

Correspondence – Maria Flook

2000

Correspondence – Bob Shacochis

2000

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

2000

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

2000

Correspondence – Mary Robison

2000

Correspondence – Charles Bock

2000

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.)

2000

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.

2000

Correspondence – Karen Braziller at Persea Books

2000
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Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

2000
2000

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

2000

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

2000

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

2000

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

2000

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road website

2000

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re instituting a slush pile

2000

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

2000
2000

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

2000

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

2000

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

2000
2000

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

2000
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Post Road Magazine contract template

2000
2000

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

2000
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Correspondence – Jamie Clarke; incl CD for band Perfect

2001
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Drawing of JDC from Hollywood Wax Museum

2001
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Correspondence – Knox Burger

2001
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Postcard from Harold Ober Associates acknowledging receipt of Scavengers

2001
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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.”

2001

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.”

2001

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.

2001
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Bloomsbury – Nzoom.com review of We’re So Famous

2001
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Bloomsbury – Postcard from Mary Robison re We’re So Famous

2001

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

2001

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

2001

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

2001
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Bloomsbury – Kirkus review of We’re So Famous

2001

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

2001
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Bloomsbury – New York Times Book Review capsule review of We’re So Famous

2001

Bloomsbury – Publishers Weekly review of We’re So Famous

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