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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

1991

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

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1992

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

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1993

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

1993
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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.

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

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

1994
1994

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

1994
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Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

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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
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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
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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

Correspondence – The Last Novel Ever Published

2013

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

2013

Manuscript – Garden Lakes

2013

Correspondence – Vernon Downs/US edition (Roundabout Press)

2013

Correspondence – New American Canon project

2013

Correspondence – Vernon Downs/UK edition (Bloomsbury)

2013

Manuscript – The Last Novel Ever Published

2013

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

2013

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.

2013
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2013

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

2013

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

2013
2013

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

2013
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Boston Book Festival 2013 Program Guide (+)

2013

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

2013
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2013

Livreshebdo.fr article re JDC and Amazon

2013

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

2013
2013

Le Figaro article re JDC and Amazon

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Article re JDC and Amazon in Spanish language newspaper El Confidential

2013
2013

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

2013

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

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2013

Danish news article (SehaBooks) on JDC and Amazon

2013

Israel Herald article on JDC and Amazon

2013
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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”

2013
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Hebrew article re JDC and Amazon

2013

Notes From the Engine Room re JDC and Amazon

2013

Marketing Daily piece re JDC and Amazon

2013

Brookline Booksmith screenshot of Nov 2 event for Boston Noir 2

2013
2014

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

2014
2014

Correspondence – New American Canon material edited for Believer column

2014

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.”

2014

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.”

2014

Correspondence – Bloomsbury UK re Vernon Downs

2014

Correspondence – Post Road Magazine

2014

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.”

2014

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.”

2014

Correspondence – Vernon Downs

2014

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.”

2014

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.”

2014

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

2014
2014

Manuscript – World Gone Water, edited by Mary Cotton

2014

Correspondence – Bloomsbury UK re World Gone Water

2014

Correspondence – Bloomsbury UK re We’re So Famous ebook

2014
2014

Contract dated September 24 with Roundabout Press re World Gone Water

2014
2014

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

2014
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Manuscript – World Gone Water, edited by Dan Pope

2014

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

2014
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