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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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?”)
O the Places I've Lived!
Manuscript – “A House Divided.” Short Story. Typed. Pgs 1-6.
College Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Arizona State University
Phoenix College
Phoenix, AZ
Manuscript – “Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-42. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
College Writing
College Writing
Manuscript – “St. Janice.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-8.
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
Correspondence – Persona co-fiction editor Lavinia Spalding
Persona Magazine
Spalding, Lavinia
University of Arizona
Johnson, Denis
Manuscript – “Waiting for Christie.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11.
College Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Manuscript – “Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-18. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Table of Contents for Persona Magazine, fiction edited by JDC and Lavinia Spalding
Persona Magazine
Spalding, Lavinia
University of Arizona
Manuscript – “A Complete Gentleman.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-34. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
University of Arizona
Manuscript – “Pleasure Island.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-20. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Manuscript – “Shane of Lubbock.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16.
College Writing
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis incl bio info; “Interview with Bret Easton Ellis,” by Mark Amerika and Alexander Laurence; New York Times Book Review review of The Informers written by George Stade; November/December 1994 U Magazine interview with BEE titled “Days of Whining Poseurs,” by Joshua Mann.
Ellis, Bret Easton
University of Arizona
JDC application to the Bennington College Low-Residency MFA program dated October 11, 1994
Bennington College
Rector, Liam
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
University of Arizona
Ellis, Bret Easton
May-June: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
July-Aug: Kaibab-Huachuca Dorm, Tucson, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
Fall: 4236 N. 103rd Ave, #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
University of Arizona Transcript - 1993-1994; including transcript for Estrella Mountain Community College
University of Arizona
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis including June 1995 Details Magazine profile of Val Kilmer by BEE; May 1995 copy of Manhattan File featuring Glamorama excerpt by BEE; Hotwired interview with BEE; photo of BEE with Candace Bushnell from At Random.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Harold Ober Associates
Apprentice Writing
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – Essay – “Building a Better Character (In 90 Days or Less).” Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – January 1995 workshop – “Urbana.” Annotated by Reginald McKnight. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
McKnight, Reginald
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Don DeLillo’s White Noise.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – June Workshop – “Pleasure Island.” Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ethan Canin’s Star Food.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Center by Amy Hempel.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “I Would Have Saved Them If I Could by Leonard Michaels.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Anton Chekhov’s The Shooting Party.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “David Foster Wallace’s Girl With Curious Hair.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Madison Smartt Bell.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “A Stranger in this World, stories by Kevin Canty.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “U&I by Nicholson Baker.”
Bennington College
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.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – ‘Shane of Lubbock” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk; includes alternate version, typed, pgs 1-3.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
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.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – “World Gone Water” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Airships by Barry Hannah.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “The Vegetable King” – Novel excerpt. Typed, pgs 1-44. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis.”
Bennington College
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.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
We're So Famous: A Novel
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Sportswriter by Richard Ford.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Last” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-2. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Unsaid” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-7. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Anerotic” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-5. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “From Our New York Office” – Short story. Typed, one page.
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
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.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – “Monthly Payments’ – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Bennington College
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
Pushcart Prize
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Bennington College
Correspondence – Fiona McCrae at Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press
Bennington College
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Letter from Chelsea Magazine enclosing payment for publication of “A Complete Gentleman” in Chelsea #59; incl color copy of check.
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – Sections for novel version of A Complete Gentleman. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – Bennington – January 1996 residency workshop – “This Way Is Over.” (Rewrite of “Monthly Payments.”) Short story. Typed, pgs 1-17. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Renters.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-18. Annotated by Amy Hempel. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “My Literary Apprenticeship.” Essay. Typed, pgs 1-20. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Typical by Padgett Powell.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Ice at the Bottom of the World by Mark Richard.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “An Amateur’s Guide to Night by Mary Robison.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – On Sharon Olds’s poetry.
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Orbit from The Spectacle of the Body by Noy Holland.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – On Steps by Jerzy Kosinski, Speedboat by Renata Adler, and Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick.
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ray by Barry Hannah.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “My Hard Bargain by Walter Kirn.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – June 1996 Workshop. “Renters.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-15. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – June 1996 Workshop. “Renters.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-15. Annotated by Maria Flook. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Flook, Maria
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Signaling.” (Rewrite of “Renters.”) Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Stardust, 7-Eleven, Route 57, A&W, And So Forth by Patricia Lear.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons.”
Bennington College
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Into the Great Wide Open by Kevin Canty.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Lights, Camera, Darkness.” (Later titles: “Screen Test” + “This, Too Stars You”) Short story. Typed, pgs 1-13. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Andrew Turnball.”
Bennington College
Letter dated October 22, 1996 from the Mississippi Review accepting “We’re So Famous” for publication. (+)
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Manuscript – Bennington – “Ex-Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-17. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Rock Springs by Richard Ford.”
Bennington College
Stoneboy Press
Manuscript – Bennington – “What You’ll Find When the Tide Comes In.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – “We’re So Famous.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-7. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
We're So Famous: A Novel
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
October 24, 1996 contract with the Mississippi Review for the publication of “We’re So Famous”
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Morvern Callar by Alan Warner.”
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Stoneboy Press
We're So Famous: A Novel
October 31, 1996 letter from the Mississippi Review with page proofs for “We’re So Famous”
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, edited by JDC.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – JDC Graduate Lecture. w/letter from Bret Easton Ellis.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Bennington – Final thesis (Standard Deviation) review by Betsy Cox
Cox, Betsy
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Standard Deviation
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, edited by BEE.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Bennington – Final thesis (Standard Deviation) second review by Bob Shacochis
Shacochis, Bob
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Standard Deviation
Robison, Mary
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
The Mississippi Review
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Manuscript – Bennington – JDC Graduate Lecture. Annotated by Amy Hempel.
Hempel, Amy
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, conducted in NYC in November 1996. Two microcassette tapes and transcript of interview.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
New York City
Literary Journey
AGNI Magazine
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
New York City
Literary Journey
Flook, Maria
Pushcart Prize
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Correspondence – Maria Flook
Flook, Maria
Correspondence – Frederick Barthelme
Barthelme, Frederick
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Literary Journey
Bennington College
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Manuscript – Bennington – Final version of JDC graduate lecture. Typed, pgs 1-16.
Bennington College
Correspondence – Pete Hausler (+)
Hausler, Pete
New York City
Literary Journey
Proposed table of contents for A Complete Gentleman (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman. Novel. First draft. Typed, pgs 1-136. Annotated by Bret Easton Ellis. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman. Novel. Second draft. Typed, pgs 1-126. Annotated by Bret Easton Ellis. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – “Wagering.” Short Story. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Literary Journey
Literary Journey
Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman. Novel. Final draft. Typed, pgs 1-175. Annotated by JDC. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – undated draft of A Complete Gentleman. Novel. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
Jan: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
June-Aug: 390 Westford Rd., Concord, MA
O the Places I've Lived!
Sept: Astoria, Queens
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
McKnight, Reginald
Rector, Liam
Cox, Betsy
Hempel, Amy
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
New York City
Correspondence – Rick Moody
Moody, Rick
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
New York City
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Correspondence – Maria Flook
Flook, Maria