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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

Correspondence – Askold Melnyczuk

1998

Correspondence – Liam Rector

1998

Time Out New York listing for Nov 8 KGB Reading with David Ryan

1998

Addendum to interview with Bret Easton Ellis – Transcript and BEE’s Notes; includes audiotape of interview.

1998

Correspondence – Amy Hempel

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Manuscript – “The Vegetable King.”  Short story.  Typed, pgs 1-14. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.) (Retitled: “The Flat Earth”)

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Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

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Manuscript – “The Loan.” Unfinished short story. Handwritten. One page.

1998

Manuscript – “I Guess This Is Goodbye, Then.”  Short story. Typed, pgs 1-17. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1998

Manuscript – “Kink.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-19.

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Misc. related to Bennington alum writing retreat at Davis Alumni House with David Ryan, Mike Rosovsky, Susan Breen, and Rebecca Boyd (Aug 9-Aug 13).

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Jan-June 311 W. 6th Ave, NYC

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Correspondence – Liam Rector

1999

Correspondence – Douglas Bauer

1999

Correspondence – Amy Hempel

1999

Correspondence – Charles Bock

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Correspondence re the publication of “The Serial Lover” in AGNI.  Includes contract dated September 24, 1998 and July 1999 cover letter with galleys.

1999
1999

Harold Ober Associates profit sharing documents

1999

Correspondence re the all-interview issue of The Mississippi Review edited by JDC.  Includes drafts of interviews with Bret Easton Ellis, Rick Bass, Mary Gaitskill, Tim Gautreaux, Thom Jones, Rick Moody, and Padgett Powell.

1999

Manuscript – “Salt Lake City” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-12.

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Invitation to Thomas C. Wallace‘s Halloween party at the Century Club

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Correspondence re the publication of “Lindy” in the 1999 Mississippi Review Prize Issue.  Includes contract dated November 23, 1999 and November 1999 galleys.

1999
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Correspondence re the publication of “Screen Test” (formerly “Sacrifice”) in Black Dirt.  Includes contract dated April 1999 and November 1999 galleys.

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We’re So Famous – Draft and research material for novel

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Apr: 311 W. 6th Ave, NYC

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Dec: 245 E. 80th St., NYC

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Time Out New York listing for April 9, 2000 “Mississippi Review Night” reading at KGB with David Ryan

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Galapagos postcard advertising “Standard Deviation Night” – October 25, 2000

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Bloomsbury – JDC author photo

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Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Claire McKinney re publicity for We’re So Famous

2000

Bloomsbury – Loose galleys for We’re So Famous

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Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Panagiotis Gianopoulos re We’re So Famous

2000

Bloomsbury – Loose galleys for We’re So Famous, corrected by JDC.

2000

Bloomsbury – Contract for We’re So Famous

2000

Correspondence – Douglas Bauer

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Blind (EP) by John Laprade (+)

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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road writing contests judged by Heidi Julavits (fiction) and Wes McNair (poetry)

2008

Post Road Magazine – The Review Review review of Post Road 16

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Post Road Magazine – Letter from Lesley University officially declining to renew agreement to publish Post Road

2008

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence from Ron McLarty re Post Road

2008

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Andre Balazs re Post Road becoming the house magazine at the Chateau Marmont

2008

Post Road MagazineBoston Globe article entitled “Literati have a nip with their authors” featuring Post Road mention

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Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re signing agreement with Boston College

2008

Post Road Magazine – Signed copies of Post Road/Boston College agreement

2008

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road/Boston College merger

2008

Post Road Magazine – Flyers for Boston College Arts Festival Apr 23-25, featuring Post Road mention

2008

Post Road Magazine – Draft copies of Post Road/Boston College agreement

2008

Post Road Magazine – Signed Unanimous Consent of directors re Mary Cotton’s resignation from Post Road Board, dated May 1

2008

Post Road Magazine – email to editors re first meeting with Ricco Siasoco, Post Road’s new managing editor at Boston College

2008

Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to editors re uncertain future after Post Road 16

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Diane Williams re Harper’s Magazine reprinting her piece “My First Real Home”; incl Jan 2009 issue of Harper’s featuring reprint.

2008

Post Road Magazine – Email from Post Road contributor Dora Malech re her poem “Face for Radio” being anthologized in the Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry

2008

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with John Parsley at Little, Brown re the idea of a Post Road anthology of work from the first sixteen issues

2008

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Debra Spark re her piece from Post Road 15 being listed as a Pushcart Prize Special Mention

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Post Road Magazine – Letter from Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts re Post Road

2008
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Manuscript – Talk Show anthology

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Manuscript – Garden Lakes

2009

Correspondence – Talk Show at Fanzine.com

2009

Correspondence – re American Energies: Contemporary Writers and Their Achievements,Ambitions, and Aspirations, edited by JDC

2009

Manuscript – Vernon Downs

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Manuscript – Proposal for Afternoons at the Odeon (film anth) edited by JDC, featuring original essays by Dennis Lehane, Gregory Maguire, Julia Glass, Charles Bock, Moon Unit Zappa, Lev Grossman, Antonya Nelson, Sven Birkerts, Lydia Millet, J. Robert Lennon, Aimee Bender, David Ebershoff, Thomas Beller, Wesley Stace, Elisa Albert, Ben Nugent, Salvatore Scibona, Adrienne Miller, Owen King, Nathaniel Rich, Ryan Boudinot, Elizabeth Searle, Holly LeCraw, and Rebecca Wolff. with an introduction by Neil LaBute.

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JDC complimentary membership to the Friends of the Library at Boston University

2009
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Program for Brattleboro Literary Festival, October 2-4, 2009

2009

Contract for panel appearance at Bennington College alum residency; including Benn event listing info and correspondence re panel with Sven Birkerts.

2009

Boston Book Festival Program Guide – October 24, 2009 (+)

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Tickets for Buffalo Tom at the Paradise Rock Club, June 26, 2009, with Tom Perrotta and Mary Granfield + Mary Cotton

2009

Program for New Yorker Festival, Oct 16-18, 2009; incl tix for Joshua Ferris and Aleksandar Hemon, Fri, Oct 16; James Franco in conversation with Lauren Collins, Sat, Oct 17; Inside the Artist’s Studio: Chuck Close, Sun, Oct 18.

2009

Correspondence – Vernon Downs

2009

Letter from Hannah Tinti re her reading at Newtonville Books for the paperback of The Good Thief

2009

Boston Globe “Shelf Life” column re the Celebrity Bookclub at Newtonville Books

2009

Correspondence – Talk Show anthology

2009

Boston Globe article by Margot Livesey titled “Following Boston’s Other Historical Trail” incl mention of Newtonville Books

2009

Boston Globe article titled “Unchained Success: Independent Bookstores Holding Up vs. Big Rivals” incl mention of Newtonville Books

2009

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re sending the Post Road anthology out to editors; also about the first Post Road/Boston College Board meeting on May 22.

2009

Correspondence – University Press of Mississippi re Conversations with Jonathan Lethem

2009

Boston Globe article re the creation of the Celebrity Bookclub

2009

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re PR booth at the first annual Boston Book Festival; incl article in Bay State Banner about the Boston Book Festival incl Post Road mention.

2009

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re “Rara Avis: How to Tell a True Bird Story” by Jackson Connor and “Tiny Monuments: A Look at Snapshot Photography” by Hannah Lifson from Post Road 16 being selected as Honorable Mentions for the Best American Essays, ed by Mary Oliver

2009
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road transition to BC

2009

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road anthology selections, Vol I

2009
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Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re “Monster” by Rebekah Frumkin being chosen for Best American Nonrequired Reading, edited by Dave Eggers; incl Nov 17 article entitled “Carleton student’s short story published in national anthology” by David Henke.

2009

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road anthology selections, Vol II

2009

Post Road Magazine – Contract with Dzanc Books for Post Road anthology

2009

Post Road Magazine – Queries to publishers re the Post Road anthology

2009

Correspondence — Garden Lakes

2010

Correspondence — Conversations with Jonathan Lethem Vol I

2010

Correspondence — Conversations with Jonathan Lethem Vol II

2010

Correspondence — Post Road re Boston College transition

2010

Correspondence — Talk Show anthology

2010

Correspondence — No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (Post Road anthology published by Dzanc Books)

2010

Manuscript — Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, ed by JDC; incl JDC editor questionnaire and permission form templates

2010

Contract dated September 30, 2009 between JDC and University Press of Mississippi for Conversations with Jonathan Lethem

2010

Correspondence — Vernon Downs

2010

Manuscript — No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine ed by JDC and Mary Cotton (ToC) with selections by Jim Shepard, Owen King, Charles Bock, Phillip Lopate, Richard Hoffman, Lydia Millet, Allison Amend, Stacey Richter, April Bernard, Lev Grossman, Elisa Albert, Tom Sleigh, Ed Park, Nathaniel Rich, Mark Strand, Karen Shepard, Amy Gerstler, Ann Hood, Edward Albee, Sloane Crosley, Yusef Komunyakaa, Joshua Furst, Roxana Robinson, Margot Livesey, Michael Dahlie, Daniel Wallace, Mary Jo Bang, Darin Strauss, Michael Ryan, Melissa Pritchard, Allison Lynn, David Means, Galt Niederhoffer, Maud Casey, and Will Allison

2010
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Manuscript — Garden Lakes

2010

Manuscript — American Kaleidoscope: A Memoir by JDC

2010

Winter 2009 Paris Review featuring Newtonville Books First Editions ad

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2010

Playbill for “American Idiot” at St. James Theatre in NYC; including tickets for May 27 performance; also, copy of ticket for May 28 performance of “Glee” at Radio City Music Hall.

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