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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

1992
1992
1992
1992

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

1993
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1993

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

1993
1993
1993

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.

1994
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1994

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

1994
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1994

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

1995
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1995

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
1995
1995
1995

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
1996

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

Bloomsbury – J. Robert Lennon blurb for World Gone Water:

2015

Bloomsbury – Matt Bell blurb for World Gone Water:

2015

Bloomsbury – Amy Grace Loyd blurb for World Gone Water:

2015

Feb 4 Real Change review by Joe Martin of Vernon Downs

2015
2015

Correspondence – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC, published by IG Books

2016

Correspondence – Garden Lakes

2016

Manuscript – Charles Bock introduction to Bloomsbury reissue of We’re So Famous

2016

Correspondence – We’re So Famous Bloomsbury reissue + Typical of the Times as an afterword, with an introduction by Charles Bock

2016

Correspondence – re Harold Ober Mystery Teleplay by JDC

2016

Correspondence – Mary Gaitskill re including her Post Road rec in an upcoming book

2016

Manuscript – “The Salinger Principle, or, A Novelist You’ve Never Heard of Calls it Quits” by JDC, published by Literary Hub as “Why I Quit Being a Writer”

2016
2016

Correspondence – The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC writing as as J.D. West

2016

Manuscript – “The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary” – Teleplay by JDC

2016
2016

Mona Awad blurb for reissue of We’re So Famous: “We’re So Famous smartly anticipates a culture re-configured by the quest for fame. The starry-eyed girls at the center of this rock-and-roll fairy tale are the predecessors of today’s selfie-snappers. With biting wit and wry humor, Clarke brilliantly reminds us that we’ve always lived for likes.”

2016

Correspondence – Letter from Setti Warren, mayor of Newton, MA, re Garden Lakes

2016
2016
2016

Brad Watson blurb for Garden Lakes: “Jaime Clarke reminds us that if the banality of evil is indeed a viable truth, its seeds are most likely sewn among adolescent boys.”

2016
2016

Margot Livesey blurb for Garden Lakes: “In the flawlessly imagined Garden Lakes, Jaime Clarke pays homage to Lord of the Flies and creates his own vivid, inadvertently isolated community.  As summer tightens its grip, and adult authority recedes, his boys gradually reveal themselves to scary and exhilarating effect.  In the hands of this master of suspense and psychological detail, the result is a compulsively readable novel.”

2016

Manuscript – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC (formerly Poor Man’s Gatsby)

2016

Julia Glass blurb for Garden Lakes: “It takes some nerve to revisit a bulletproof classic, but Jaime Clarke does so, with elegance and a cool contemporary eye, in this cunningly crafted homage to Lord of the Flies. He understands all too well the complex psychology of boyhood, how easily the insecurities and power plays slide into mayhem when adults look the other way.”

2016

Manuscript – The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC as J.D. West

2016

Publishers Marketplace mention of deal for Bloomsbury reissue of We’re So Famous

2016

Boston Book Festival Guide, Oct 14-15, 2016. (+)

2016

Paul Harding blurb for Garden Lakes: “As tense and tight and pitch-perfect as Clarke’s narrative of the harrowing events at Garden Lakes is, and as fine a meditation it is on Golding’s novel, what deepens this book to another level of insight and artfulness is the parallel portrait of Charlie Martens as an adult, years after his fateful role that summer, still tyrannized, paralyzed, tangled in lies, wishing for redemption, maybe fated never to get it. Complicated and feral, Garden Lakes is thrilling, literary, and smart as hell.”

2016

Scott Cheshire blurb for Garden Lakes: “Smart, seductive, and suggestively sinister, Garden Lakes is a disturbingly honest look at how our lies shape our lives and destroy our communities. Read it: Part three in one of the best literary trilogies we have.”

2016

Grub Street Muse and the Marketplace conference bulletin ad for Newtonville Books featuring Garden Lakes

2016

Booklist review of Garden Lakes

2016
2016
2016

Fully-executed contract dated Jan 16 with IG Publishing for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC (formerly Poor Man’s Gatsby)

2016

New York Times Book Review featuring capsule review of Garden Lakes

2016
2016
2016
2016
2016
2016

Brooklyn Rail piece by Joseph Salvatore re the Bookmarked series, featuring mention of JDC

2016
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2016

Draft of introduction by Christopher Boucher for More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Boucher (formerly Overcompensating Autodidact) featuring mention of JDC

2016
2016

Bloomsbury – Mona Awad blurb for reissue of We’re So Famous:

2016

Bloomsbury – Julia Glass blurb for Garden Lakes:

2016

Bloomsbury – Brad Watson blurb for Garden Lakes:

2016

Bloomsbury – Margot Livesey blurb for Garden Lakes:

2016

Bloomsbury – Scott Cheshire blurb for Garden Lakes:

2016

Bloomsbury – Paul Harding blurb for Garden Lakes:

2016

Finished copy – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby (formerly What I Wanted to Be + American Kaleidoscope + Poor Man’s Gatsby)

2017
2017

Strand Magazine featuring full page ad for The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC as J.D. West

2017

Karen E. Bender blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby: “Jaime Clarke’s ode to Gatsby is a completely winning, honest ode to everything: the yearning of an outsider, for success, the drama of the work world, the seduction and darkness of wealth, the search for love and the complex, bumpy life of a writer.  The Nick Carraway of Phoenix stakes his own literary territory here; a charming and engaging book.”

2017
2017

Tickets and Playbill to A Doll’s House Part 2 on Broadway, starring Chris Cooper, with Mary Cotton.

2017

Correspondence – Bloomsbury re story collection Minor Characters based on minor characters from JDC novels, to be written by other authors, and published by Bloomsbury in 2021

2017

Manuscript – Vernon Downs screenplay by JDC

2017

David James Poissant blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby: “Jaime Clarke has penned a smart, funny, beguiling account of his love affair with America’s favorite novel.  This book, like its narrator, lives “both inside Fitzgerald’s pages and out,” the best case of literary obsession I’ve had the pleasure of reading since Nicholson Baker’s U & I.  A must-read, and not just for Gatsby fans.”

2017
2017

Finished copy – More Alive and Less Lonely by Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Boucher, signed to JDC by JL and CB

2017
2017
2017
2017

Manuscript – Screenplay adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC

2017
2017

Boston Herald piece “Novel takes the cake for former Newton resident” re Annie Hartnett reading at Newtonville Books from her novel, Rabbit Cake

2017
2017

Boston Book Festival Guide. Oct 27-28, 2017. (+)

2017

Stephen King rider re Sept 28 event with SK and Owen King for Sleeping Beauties at First Baptist Church, hosted by Newtonville Books; incl ticket issued to JDC; incl Newton Police Department invoice for police detail.

2017
2017
2017

Blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by Karen E. Bender:

2017

Blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by David James Poissant:

2017

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.

2018

Manuscript – World Gone Water screenplay

2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018

Shelf Awareness email featuring Newtonville Books’s 20th anniversary

2018

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

2018
2018

Newton Tab 2017 Reader’s Choice Awards featuring Newtonville Books

2018
2018
2018
2018

Boston Book Festival Guide. Oct 12-13, 2018. (+)

2018
2018
2018

Publishers Weekly article announcing Newtonville Books as a 2018 Pannell Award nominee

2018
2018

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

2018
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