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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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?”)
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
Publishers Weekly
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Audio of Boston Book Festival panel with JDC, Celeste Ng, Leah Hager Cohen, and Jessica Keener on Sat, Oct 25; incl BBF 2014 program guide (+)
Cohen, Leah Hager
Ng, Celeste
Keener, Jessica
Boston Book Festival
Vernon Downs: A Novel
English Kills review of Center for Fiction event with JDC and Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Center for Fiction
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Boston Book Festival
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Arizona State University
Vernon Downs: A Novel
WORD Bookstore newsletter featuring listing for JDC Vernon Downs reading on June 10
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Center for Fiction newsletter re JDC reading and discussion of Vernon Downs with Charles Bock; incl CFF Spring 2014 Program Guide featuring event + contract for appearance
Bock, Charles
Center for Fiction
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Rumpus listing of Notable April readings in NYC incl JDC
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Amazon.com
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Schrank, Ben
Vernon Downs: A Novel
BookExpo, NYC. – Mary Cotton with Jason Segel.
Cotton, Mary
Segel, Jason
Newtonville Books
Saunders, George
Bound galley – World Gone Water by JDC
World Gone Water: A Novel
Cooper, Chris
Kaysen, Susanna
Messud, Claire
Newtonville Books
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Finished copy – Vernon Downs by JDC
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Various relating to JDC May 4 Grub Street Muse and the Marketplace panel entitled “My First Time” with Owen King and Kelly Braffet
King, Owen
Braffet, Kelly
Literary Journey
Keating, Jr., Charles H.
Phoenix, AZ
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Finished Copy – Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists edited by Hillary Chute; incl invitation to book party
Chute, Hillary
Brooklyn Book Festival program guide featuring JDC panel with Joshua Ferris and Andre Dubus III, moderated by Cary Barbor; incl invitation to festival party + thank you note from Cary Barbor
Brooklyn Book Festival
Dubus III, Andre
Ferris, Joshua
Vernon Downs: A Novel
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
Schrank, Ben
Searle, Elizabeth
Shepard, Jim
Shepard, Karen
Sohn, Amy
Solomon, Anna
Treadway, Jessica
Tripp, Dawn
van den Berg, Laura
Stace, Wesley (aka John Wesley Harding)
Wickersham, Joan
Hughes, Mary-Beth
Sullivan, Mary
Goldberg, Myla
Hempel, Amy
Wilson, Adam
Kirshenbaum, Binnie
Ames, Jonathan
Lipsyte, Sam
Poissant, David James
Perrotta, Tom
Yu, Charles
Laziridis, Henriette
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Tom Perrotta blurb for Vernon Downs:
Bloomsbury – Gary Shteyngart blurb for Vernon Downs:
Bloomsbury – Matthew Specktor blurb for Vernon Downs:
Bloomsbury – Laura van den Berg blurb for Vernon Downs:
Bloomsbury – Charles Yu blurb for Vernon Downs:
Bloomsbury – Dana Spiotta blurb for Vernon Downs:
Correspondence – Ig Publishing re Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC (formerly What I Wanted to Be + American Kaleidoscope + Poor Man’s Gatsby)
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
J. Robert Lennon blurb for World Gone Water: “This unsettling novel ponders human morality and sexuality, and the murky interplay between the two. Charlie Martens is a compelling antihero with a voice that can turn on a dime, from shrugging naiveté to chilling frankness. World Gone Water is a candid, often startling portrait of an unconventional life.”
Lennon, J. Robert
World Gone Water: A Novel
Correspondence – JDC editing Overcompensating Autodidact (More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers) by Jonathan Lethem
Lethem, Jonathan
Correspondence – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence – Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence – World Gone Water/US (Roundabout Press)
World Gone Water: A Novel
Adrienne Miller blurb for World Gone Water: “Funny and surprising, World Gone Water is terrific fun to read and, as a spectacle of bad behavior, pretty terrifying to contemplate.”
Miller, Adrienne
World Gone Water: A Novel
Tony D’Souza blurb for World Gone Water: “Jaime Clarke’s World Gone Water is so fresh and daring, a necessary book, a barbaric yawp that revels in its taboo: the sexual and emotional desires of today’s hetero young man. Clarke is a sure and sensitive writer, his lines are clean and carry us right to the tender heart of his lovelorn hero, Charlie Martens. This is the book Hemingway and Kerouac would want to read. It’s the sort of honesty in this climate that many of us aren’t brave enough to write.”
D'Souza, Tony
World Gone Water: A Novel
Matt Bell blurb for World Gone Water: “Charlie Martens is my favorite kind of narrator, an obsessive yearner whose commitment to his worldview is so overwhelming that the distance between his words and the reader’s usual thinking gets clouded fast. World Gone Water will draw you in, make you complicit, and finally leave you both discomfited and thrilled.”
Bell, Matt
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – Garden Lakes by JDC
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – “The Somner Affair: A Harold Ober Mystery” by JDC writing as J.B. West – Short story
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Amy Grace Loyd blurb for World Gone Water: “Charlie Martens will make you laugh. More, he’ll offend and shock you while making you laugh. Even trickier: he’ll somehow make you like him, root for him, despite yourself and despite him. This novel travels into the dark heart of male/female relations and yet there is tenderness, humanity, hope. Jaime Clarke rides what is a terribly fine line between hero and antihero. Read and be astounded.”
Loyd, Amy Grace
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC
The Last Novel Ever Published
Ausubel, Ramona
Bauer, Douglas
Bender, Aimee
Bender, Karen E.
Bezmozgis, David
Boucher, Christopher
Boyle, T.C.
Cheever, Susan
Fountain, Ben
Glass, Julia
Graver, Elizabeth
Grossman, Lev
Mirvis, Tova
Hood, Ann
King, Owen
Kushner, Rachel
LeCraw, Holly
Livesey, Margot
Loyd, Amy Grace
Lynn, Allison
Ng, Celeste
Offill, Jenny
O'Nan, Stewart
Orringer, Julie
Perrotta, Tom
Leone, Marianne
Scott, James
Searle, Elizabeth
Shacochis, Bob
Shepard, Jim
Shepard, Karen
Slater, Tracy
Tripp, Dawn
van den Berg, Laura
Vida, Vendela
Wickersham, Joan
Wilson, Jonathan
Newtonville Books
Manuscript – “The Salinger Principle” by JDC
Salinger, J.D.
Literary Journey
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Itinerary for May 22-24, 2015 wedding between Charles Bock and Leslie Jamison, incl ceremony program, thank you note, and postcard from honeymoon in Lisbon.
Bock, Charles
Jamison, Leslie
Misc Adventures
INFLUENCED BY – Letter A – printed from The Believer website: Nellie Hermann on Chris Adrian; Anne Maria Wirth Cauchon and Amy Grace Loyd on Sherman Alexie; Victor LaValle and Nathaniel Rich on Martin Amis; James Fuerst and Eric Lundgren on Donald Antrim; and Kevin Keating on Paul Auster.
The Believer
Fuerst, James
Keating, Kevin
LaValle, Victor
Lundgren, Eric
Rich, Nathaniel
Cauchon, Anne Marie Wirth
Loyd, Amy Grace
Hermann, Nellie
Influenced By
INFLUENCED BY – Letter C – printed from The Believer website: Bret Anthony Johnston, Stuart Nadler, Anna Solomon, and Urban Waite on Ethan Canin; Kevin Brockmeier on Peter Carey; Ramon Ausubel, L. Annette Binder, Jennifer DuBois, Joe Meno, Stuart Nadler, Ethan Rutherford on Michael Chabon; Ramon Ausubel and Manuel Munoz on Sandra Cisneros; Lev Grossman on Susanna Clarke; Ben Schrank, Edward Schwarzschild, and Josh Weil on J.M. Coetzee; and Lisa Borders, Jennifer DuBois, T Cooper, and Andrew Porter on Michael Cunningham.
Ausubel, Ramona
The Believer
Binder, L. Annette
Brockmeier, Kevin
Cooper, T
duBois, Jennifer
Grossman, Lev
Johnston, Bret Anthony
Nadler, Stuart
Porter, Andrew
Rutherford, Ethan
Schrank, Ben
Schwarzschild, Edward
Solomon, Anna
Waite, Urban
Weil, Josh
Borders, Lisa
Meno, Joe
Munoz, Manuel
Influenced By
Manuscript – Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle by JDC (published as an afterword in the Bloomsbury reissue of We’re So Famous)
We're So Famous: A Novel
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Boston Book Festival 2015 Program Guide (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
INFLUENCED BY – Letter B – printed from The Believer website: Ryan McIlvain, Matthew Vollmer, and Charles Yu on Nicholson Baker; Dan Chaon, Bruce Machart, Edward Schwarzschild, and Whitney Terrell on Russell Banks; Ben Greenman on Frederick Barthelme; Dan Chaon, Scott Hutchins, Rattawat Lapcharoensap, Ander Monson, Eric Puchner, and Laura van den Berg on Charles Baxter; Michelle Wildgen on Ann Beattie; Will Allison, Ramona Ausubel, Christopher Boucher, Ryan Boudinot, Stephanie Reents, Whitney Terrell, Pauls Toutonghi, Laura van den Berg, Karen Thompson Walker, and Charles Yu on Aimee Bender; Will Allison on Pinckney Benedict; Nathaniel Rich on T.C. Boyle; and Maile Chapman on A.S. Byatt.
Allison, Will
Ausubel, Ramona
Monson, Ander
The Believer
Machart, Bruce
Boucher, Christopher
Boudinot, Ryan
Chaon, Dan
Chapman, Maile
Greenman, Ben
Hutchins, Scott
Lapcharoensap, Rattawat
Puchner, Eric
Reents, Stephanie
Rich, Nathaniel
Schwarzschild, Edward
Terrell, Whitney
Toutonghi, Pauls
van den Berg, Laura
Vollmer, Matthew
Walker, Karen Thompson
Wildgen, Michelle
Yu, Charles
McIlvain, Ryan
Influenced By
INFLUENCED BY – Letter H – printed from The Believer website: Josh Weil on Ron Hansen; Ru Freeman on Ursula Hegi; Quinn Dalton, Jac Jemc, Bruce Machart, and Laura van den Berg on Amy Hempel; Molly Antopol, Lauren Grodstein, Charles MacLeod, and Karolina Waclawiak on A.M. Homes; and Jensen Beach, Melinda Moustakis, and Ilie Ruby on Pam Houston.
Antopol, Molly
Beach, Jensen
The Believer
Dalton, Quinn
Freeman, Ru
Grodstein, Lauren
Machart, Bruce
Jemc, Jac
Ruby, Ilie
van den Berg, Laura
Weil, Josh
Waclawiak, Karolina
MacLeod, Charles
Moustakis, Melinda
Influenced By
INFLUENCED BY – Letter D – printed from The Believer website: Maud Casey, Lauren Groff, and Dawn Tripp on Kathryn Davis; Elizabeth Crane, Rivka Galchen, Katherine Hill, Rebecca Makkai, Shelly Oria, Peter Rock, Ben Schrank, and Aurelie Sheehan on Lydia Davis; Charles Bock, Joe Meno, Alix Ohlin, Jess Walter, and Charles Yu on Don DeLillo; Peter Rock on Stacey D’Erasmo; and Elisa Albert, Will Allison, Patricia Engel, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Alden Jones, and Joe Meno on Junot Diaz.
Albert, Elisa
Allison, Will
The Believer
Bock, Charles
Casey, Maud
Crane, Elizabeth
Engel, Patricia
Galchen, Rivka
Ganeshananthan, V.V.
Groff, Lauren
Hill, Katherine
Jones, Alden
Ohlin, Alix
Rock, Peter
Schrank, Ben
Sheehan, Aurelie
Tripp, Dawn
Walter, Jess
Yu, Charles
Makkai, Rebecca
Meno, Joe
Oria, Shelly
Influenced By
INFLUENCED BY – Letter J – printed from The Believer website: David Bezmozgis, Charles Bock, Christopher Boucher, T Cooper, Rattawat Lapcharoensap, Victor LaValle, Nelly Reifler, Joe Meno, Philipp Meyer, Ander Monson, Joseph Salvatore, Edward Schwarzschild and Laura van den Berg on Denis Johnson; Will Boast, Marjorie Celona, Jennine Capo Crucet, Rattawat Lapcharoensap, Bruce Machart, Nami Mun, Jess Walter, and Paul Yoon on Edward P. Jones; and Ander Monson on Thom Jones.
The Believer
Bezmozgis, David
Boast, Will
Bock, Charles
Boucher, Christopher
Celona, Marjorie
Cooper, T
Crucet, Jennine Capo
Lapcharoensap, Rattawat
LaValle, Victor
Reifler, Nelly
Salvatore, Joseph
Schwarzschild, Edward
van den Berg, Laura
Walter, Jess
Yoon, Paul
Monson, Ander
Machart, Bruce
Meno, Joe
Meyer, Philipp
Mun, Nami
Influenced By
INFLUENCED BY – Letter E – printed from The Believer website: Ander Monson on Tony Early; Allison Amend, Dan Chaon, Tony D’Souza, Jennifer DuBois, Joanna Hershon, Katherine Hill, and Edward Schwarzschild on Jennifer Egan; Arthur Bradford, T Cooper, Ben Greenman, Joe Meno, David James Poissant, and Kevin Sampsell on Dave Eggers; Elisa Albert, Jennifer DuBois, Zachary Lazar, Michael Lowenthal, and Manuel Gonzales on Deborah Eisenberg; Christian Tebordo on Bret Easton Ellis, Will Allison, Scott Cheshire, Phil Klay, and Stuart Nadler on Nathan Englander; Caitlin Horrocks, Jim Lynch, Melinda Moustakis, Vanessa Veselka, and Jess Walter on Louise Erdrich; Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Whitney Terrell, and Karen Thompson Walker on Jeffrey Eugenides; Matt Bell, Blake Butler, and Peter Rock on Brian Evenson; Adam Wilson and Jess Walter on Percival Everett.
Albert, Elisa
Allison, Will
Amend, Allison
The Believer
Bell, Matt
Bradford, Arthur
Butler, Blake
Chaon, Dan
Cheshire, Scott
Cooper, T
D'Souza, Tony
duBois, Jennifer
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten
Meno, Joe
Gonzales, Manuel
Greenman, Ben
Hershon, Joanna
Hill, Katherine
Horrocks, Caitlin
Klay, Phil
Lazar, Zachary
Lowenthal, Michael
Lynch, Jim
Nadler, Stuart
Poissant, David James
Rock, Peter
Sampsell, Kevin
Schwarzschild, Edward
Tebordo, Christian
Terrell, Whitney
Veselka, Vanessa
Walker, Karen Thompson
Walter, Jess
Monson, Ander
Moustakis, Melinda
Wilson, Adam
Influenced By
INFLUENCED BY – Letter L – printed from The Believer website: Alethea Black and Karen Thompson Walker on Jhumpa Lahiri; Rachel DeWoskin, Ru Freeman, Irina Reyn, and Whitney Terrell on Chang-rae Lee; Ben Greenman, Ivy Pochoda, Matthew Specktor, and Charles Yu on Jonathan Lethem; and Ryan Boudinot, Nelly Reifler, and Whitney Terrell on Gary Lutz.
The Believer
Black, Alethea
Boudinot, Ryan
DeWoskin, Rachel
Freeman, Ru
Greenman, Ben
Pochoda, Ivy
Reifler, Nelly
Reyn, Irina
Specktor, Matthew
Terrell, Whitney
Walker, Karen Thompson
Yu, Charles
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INFLUENCED BY – Letter I – printed from The Believer website: Maile Chapman, Brock Clarke, T Cooper, Jennifer DuBois, Rivka Galchen, Alix Ohlin, James Scott, Karen Thompson Walker, and Alexi Zentner on Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Believer
Chapman, Maile
Clarke, Brock
Cooper, T
duBois, Jennifer
Galchen, Rivka
Ohlin, Alix
Scott, James
Walker, Karen Thompson
Zentner, Alexi
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INFLUENCED BY – Letter F – printed from The Believer website: Kathleen Alcott, Lauren Grodstein, and Josh Weil on Richard Ford; Charles Bock, Jennifer DuBois, Lev Grossman, Katherine Hill, Joe Meno, and Annapurna Potluri on Jonathan Franzen.
Alcott, Kathleen
The Believer
Bock, Charles
duBois, Jennifer
Grodstein, Lauren
Grossman, Lev
Hill, Katherine
Potluri, Annapurna
Weil, Josh
Meno, Joe
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INFLUENCED BY – Letter G – printed from The Believer website: Alicia Erian, Elliot Holt, Tony D’Souza, Suzanne Rivecca, Ben Schrank, and James Scott on Mary Gaitskill; and Jim Gavin on David Gates.
The Believer
D'Souza, Tony
Erian, Alicia
Gavin, Jim
Holt, Elliot
Rivecca, Suzanne
Schrank, Ben
Scott, James
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The Believer
Boudinot, Ryan
Braffet, Kelly
Chapman, Maile
LaValle, Victor
Rich, Nathaniel
Meyer, Philipp
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Albert, Elisa
Alcott, Kathleen
Allison, Will
The Believer
Blackwell, Gabriel
Bock, Charles
Boudinot, Ryan
Brockmeier, Kevin
Butler, Blake
Chace, Rebecca
Chaon, Dan
Chapman, Maile
Clarke, Brock
Cooper, T
D'Souza ,Tony
Epstein, Jennifer Cody
Freeman, Ru
Galchen, Rivka
Nadler, Stuart
Nutting, Alissa
Ohlin, Alix
Phillips, Helen
Quatro, Jamie
Rich, Nathaniel
Rock, Peter
Salvatore, Joseph
Schrank, Ben
Scott, James
Terrell, Whitney
van den Berg, Laura
Waldman, Adelle
Walter, Jess
Weil, Josh
Monson, Ander
Machart, Bruce
Meno, Joe
Meyer, Philipp
D'Souza, Tony
Moustakis, Melinda
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Correspondence – World Gone Water/UK (Bloomsbury Reader)
World Gone Water: A Novel
INFLUENCED BY – Letter W – printed from The Believer website: Kathleen Alcott, Charles Bock, Ryan Boudinot, Blake Butler, Jennifer Dubois, Joe Meno, Ben Schrank, James Scott, and Charles Yu on David Foster Wallace; Michelle Hoover on John Edgar Wideman; Charles Yu on Colson Whitehead; Dan Chaon on John Edgar Wideman; Peter Rock on Diane Williams; Wendy Brenner, Dan Chaon, Brock Clarke, Ben Greenman, Rattawat Lapcharoensap, Bruce Machart, James Scott, Laura van den Berg, and Claire Vaye Watkins on Joy Williams; Peter Rock on Tim Winton; and Elisa Albert, Dan Chaon, and Edward Schwarzschild on Tobias Wolff.
Albert, Elisa
Alcott, Kathleen
The Believer
Bock, Charles
Boudinot, Ryan
Brenner, Wendy
Butler, Blake
Chaon, Dan
Clarke, Brock
duBois, Jennifer
Greenman, Ben
Lapcharoensap, Rattawat
Rock, Peter
Schrank, Ben
Schwarzschild, Edward
Scott, James
van den Berg, Laura
Watkins, Claire Vaye
Yu, Charles
Machart, Bruce
Meno, Joe
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Ausubel, Ramona
Bauer, Carlene
The Believer
Bergman, Megan Mayhew
Boucher, Christopher
Boudinot, Ryan
Braunstein, Sarah
Brown, Nic
Butler, Blake
Chapman, Maile
Cooper, T
Cutter, Weston
duBois, Jennifer
Galchen, Rivka
Gilvarry, Alex
Greenman, Ben
Ohlin, Alix
Phillips, Arthur
Terrell, Whitney
van den Berg, Laura
Weil, Josh
Yu, Charles
Machart, Bruce
Munoz, Manuel
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Albert, Elisa
Allison, Will
The Believer
Boudinot, Ryan
Cutter, Weston
Freeman, Ru
Keane, Mary Beth
Otis, Mary
Schrank, Ben
Solomon, Anna
Yu, Charles
Montemarano, Nicholas
Influenced By
Bergin, Josephine
World Gone Water: A Novel
INFLUENCED BY – Letter T – printed from The Believer website: Kelly Braffet, Leslie Jamison, David Samuel Levinson, and Allison Lynn on Donna Tartt; Will Allison and Ander Monson on Melanie Rae Thon; and Holly LeCraw, Liz Moore, and Ben Schrank on William Trevor.
Allison, Will
The Believer
Braffet, Kelly
Jamison, Leslie
LeCraw, Holly
Levinson, David Samuel
Lynn, Allison
Schrank, Ben
Monson, Ander
Moore, Liz
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The Believer
Chaon, Dan
Dau, Stephen
D'Souza, Tony
Eck, Matthew
Pittard, Hannah
Scott, James
Terrell, Whitney
Machart, Bruce
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Albert, Elisa
The Believer
Cooper, T
duBois, Jennifer
Greenman, Ben
Nadler, Stuart
Rich, Nathaniel
Schrank, Ben
Scott, James
Terrell, Whitney
Walker, Karen Thompson
Yu, Charles
Schwarzschild, Edward
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Addonizio, Kim
The Believer
Bock, Charles
Horvath, Tim
LaValle, Victor
Taylor, Justin
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Bloomsbury Reader galley for Garden Lakes
Bergin, Josephine
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
The Believer posting about Vernon Downs book trailer 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
The Believer
Cooper, Chris
Bender, Aimee
Albert, Elisa
Gawande, Atul
Ausubel, Ramona
Bechdel, Alison
Marcus, Ben
Bock, Charles
Boucher, Christopher
Conway, Mark
Cooper, T
Crane, Elizabeth
Dahlie, Michael
Donnelly, Tanya
duBois, Jennifer
Fuerst, James
Glass, Julia
Grossman, Lev
LeCraw, Holly
Scott, James
Jamison, Leslie
Hershon, Joanna
Wilson, Jonathan
King, Owen
Lynn, Allison
MacKinnon, Amy
Maguire, Gregory
Makkai, Rebecca
Livesey, Margot
McCorkle, Jill
Harding, Paul
Leone, Marianne
Yoon, Paul
Pochoda, Ivy
Power, Henriette
Quatro, Jamie
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Boston Globe “New England Literary News” piece on Newtonville Books mention in the novel Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
Newtonville Books
Largehearted Boy “Book Notes” feature on World Gone Water
Art Fuse listing of Newtonville Books reading with JDC and Laura van den Berg
van den Berg, Laura
World Gone Water: A Novel
Cotton, Mary
Literary Hub
Newtonville Books
Contract dated December 26, 2014 with Bloomsbury for publication of World Gone Water and Garden Lakes; incl Aug 26, 2015 amendment granting Bloomsbury World Rights in both titles.
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Finished copy – A Book of Uncommon Prayer, edited by Matthew Vollmer, featuring “For the Newly Minted Ph.D. in English Literature” by JDC; signed; incl Outpost 19 catalogue featuring anthology + listing for launch party at Housing Works bookstore on Tues, May 19
Vollmer, Matthew
Literary Journey
Boston Globe event listing for JDC event with Laura van den Berg at Newtonville Books for World Gone Water
van den Berg, Laura
World Gone Water: A Novel
Email from James Magnuson re his unpublished New York Times Book Review review of Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Sherman, Rachel
Newtonville Books
Literary Hub
Small Press Distribution bestseller list for November & December 2014 featuring Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Listing of Apr 12 World Gone Water reading at KGB with JDC and Jeffrey Rotter
KGB Bar
World Gone Water: A Novel
KGB Bar
Shelf Awareness including mention of World Gone Water book trailer narrated by Thora Birch
Birch, Thora
World Gone Water: A Novel
Literary Hub excerpt of World Gone Water
Literary Hub
World Gone Water: A Novel
Ausubel, Ramona
Bezmozgis, David
Bock, Charles
Brooklyn Rail
Casey, Maud
Clarke, Brock
Pittard, Hannah
Poissant, David James
Makkai, Rebecca
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
The Last Novel Ever Published
Grub Street Muse and the Marketplace conference bulletin ad for Newtonville Books featuring World Gone Water
World Gone Water: A Novel
Book trailer for World Gone Water, narrated by Thora Birch featuring Moon Unit Zappa, J. Robert Lennon, Maile Chapman, Frederick Barthelme, Andre Dubus III, Brock Clarke, Molly Antopol, Ed Park, David Bezmozgis, Jac Jemc, Shelly Oria, David Ryan, Nathaniel Rich, Hannah Pittard, Dennis Lehane, Katherine Hill, Victoria Redel, Gary Shteyngart, Scott Cheshire, Joseph Salvatore, Celeste Ng, Matthew Specktor, Kent Wascom, Vendela Vida, Josh Weil, Darin Strauss, and Alden Jones
Antopol, Molly
Barthelme, Frederick
Bezmozgis, David
Birch, Thora
Chapman, Maile
Cheshire, Scott
Clarke, Brock
Dubus III, Andre
Hill, Katherine
Jemc, Jac
Jones, Alden
Lehane, Dennis
Lennon, J. Robert
Ng, Celeste
Oria, Shelly
Park, Ed
Pittard, Hannah
Redel, Victoria
Rich, Nathaniel
Ryan, David
Salvatore, Joseph
Shteyngart, Gary
Specktor, Matthew
Strauss, Darin
Vida, Vendela
Wascom, Kent
Weil, Josh
Zappa, Moon Unit
World Gone Water: A Novel
Center for Fiction
Loyd, Amy Grace
World Gone Water: A Novel
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
The Believer posting about Vernon Downs book trailer 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
Reifler, Nelly
Schrank, Ben
Searle, Elizabeth
Shepard, Jim
Shepard, Karen
Sohn, Amy
Solomon, Anna
Treadway, Jessica
Tripp, Dawn
van den Berg, Laura
Stace, Wesley (aka John Wesley Harding)
Wickersham, Joan
Hughes, Mary-Beth
Sullivan, Mary
Goldberg, Myla
Hempel, Amy
Wilson, Adam
Kirshenbaum, Binnie
Ames, Jonathan
Lipsyte, Sam
Poissant, David James
Perrotta, Tom
Yu, Charles
Lazaridis, Henriette
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Adrienne Miller blurb for World Gone Water:
Bloomsbury – Tony D’Souza blurb for World Gone Water: