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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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
Melnyczuk, Askold
Correspondence – Liam Rector
Rector, Liam
Time Out New York listing for Nov 8 KGB Reading with David Ryan
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
Addendum to interview with Bret Easton Ellis – Transcript and BEE’s Notes; includes audiotape of interview.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Hausler, Pete
New York City
Ellis, Bret Easton
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”)
Literary Journey
Pushcart Prize
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Manuscript – “Knollwood.” Short story. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Literary Journey
Bingham, Robert
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
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Bennington College
Bennington College
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Manuscript – “The Loan.” Unfinished short story. Handwritten. One page.
Literary Journey
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.)
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Manuscript – “Kink.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-19.
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Ellis, Bret Easton
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Literary Journey
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World Gone Water: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
Literary Journey
We're So Famous: A Novel
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
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).
Rosovsky, Michael
Ryan, David
Boyd, Rebecca
Breen, Susan
Bennington College
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
Literary Journey
Literary Journey
Jan-June 311 W. 6th Ave, NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
July: 25 Jay St., Brooklyn
O the Places I've Lived!
New York City
Ames, Jonathan
New York City
Correspondence – Liam Rector
Rector, Liam
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Misc Adventures
Misc Adventures
Correspondence re the publication of “The Serial Lover” in AGNI. Includes contract dated September 24, 1998 and July 1999 cover letter with galleys.
AGNI Magazine
Melnyczuk, Askold
Literary Journey
Barthelme, Frederick
Rosovsky, Michael
Bock, Charles
Ryan, David
Boyd, Rebecca
The Mississippi Review
Literary Journey
Harold Ober Associates profit sharing documents
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
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.
Barthelme, Frederick
Rosovsky, Michael
Bock, Charles
Ryan, David
Boyd, Rebecca
The Mississippi Review
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Manuscript – “Salt Lake City” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-12.
Literary Journey
Invitation to Thomas C. Wallace‘s Halloween party at the Century Club
New York City
AGNI 50 featuring “The Serial Lover” by JDC. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
AGNI Magazine
Melnyczuk, Askold
Literary Journey
Correspondence re the publication of “Lindy” in the 1999 Mississippi Review Prize Issue. Includes contract dated November 23, 1999 and November 1999 galleys.
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
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Bennington College
Correspondence re the publication of “Screen Test” (formerly “Sacrifice”) in Black Dirt. Includes contract dated April 1999 and November 1999 galleys.
Black Dirt Magazine
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The Mississippi Review Prize Issue featuring “Lindy” by JDC (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
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World Gone Water: A Novel
Standard Deviation
Literary Journey
We’re So Famous – Draft and research material for novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Harold Ober Associates
Harold Ober Associates
Post Road Magazine
Apr: 311 W. 6th Ave, NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
Sept: 245 E. 80th St., NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
Dec: 245 E. 80th St., NYC
O the Places I've Lived!
KGB Bar
The Mississippi Review
New York City
Literary Journey
KGB Bar
Ames, Jonathan
New York City
Flyer and Invitation for “Starbound New Writers Night” at Russian Samovar- March 7, 2000 reading with David Ryan. Hosted by Fiona Maazel + Nicole Krauss
Ryan, David
Maazel, Fiona
New York City
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Standard Deviation
New York City
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Time Out New York listing for April 9, 2000 “Mississippi Review Night” reading at KGB with David Ryan
KGB Bar
Ryan, David
New York City
Literary Journey
The Mississippi Review
KGB Bar
New York City
Standard Deviation
New York City
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We're So Famous: A Novel
New York City
New York City
We're So Famous: A Novel
New York City
Standard Deviation
New York City
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Galapagos postcard advertising “Standard Deviation Night” – October 25, 2000
Standard Deviation
New York City
Literary Journey
New York City
Shout Magazine
New York City
Post Road Magazine
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – JDC author photo
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Claire McKinney re publicity for We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Loose galleys for We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Panagiotis Gianopoulos re We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Loose galleys for We’re So Famous, corrected by JDC.
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Contract for We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Bergin, Josephine
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – Garden Lakes screenplay
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – World Gone Water screenplay
World Gone Water: A Novel
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.
Minor Characters: Stories
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Boston Book Festival Program Guide. October 19-20, 2019. (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Hempel, Amy
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Manuscript – Minor Characters, first draft
Minor Characters: Stories
Correspondence – Radio play adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Correspondence – Stephanie Duncan leaving Bloomsbury and moving Minor Characters to another publisher
Minor Characters: Stories
Correspondence – Minor Characters re move from Bloomsbury to Roundabout Press
Minor Characters: Stories
JDC contract dated June 17 with Roundabout Press for Minor Characters
Minor Characters: Stories
Correspondence – Minor Characters – Contracts
Minor Characters: Stories
Minor Characters: Stories
Correspondence – Minor Characters – General correspondence
Minor Characters: Stories
Manuscript – Roundabout Press omnibus including Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes – Loose galleys
Vernon Downs: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – Minor Characters – Loose galleys
Minor Characters: Stories
Roundabout Press contracts with contributors for Minor Characters; incl Roundabout license with Bloomsbury to reprint Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes in omnibus.
Vernon Downs: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Minor Characters: Stories
Minor Characters covers for galley and finished book + correspondence with contributors seeking approval for asterisk cover idea
Minor Characters: Stories
Publishers Marketplace announcement of Minor Characters deal with Roundabout Press, 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.
Awad, Mona
Boucher, Christopher
Calhoun, Kenneth
de Gramont, Nina
Greenman, Ben
Hartnett, Annie
King, Owen
LaBute, Neil
Lennon, J. Robert
Oria, Shelly
Richter, Stacey
Salvatore, Joseph
Seigel, Andrea
Torday, Daniel
Lethem, Jonathan
van den Berg, Laura
Mechling, Lauren
Minor Characters: Stories
Minor Characters: Stories
Boston Globe article entitled “This holiday season, retailers are thinking inside the box” incl mention of Newtonville Books Holiday Care Package program created by Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Newton Tab article entitled “Newton Neighbors Helping Neighbors group grows over 3600 members” incl mention of Newtonville Books gift bag program created by Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
Literary Hub newsletter featuring “A Way to Beat Mortality” by Shelly Oria from Minor Characters + copy of story published by The Literary Hub
Literary Hub
Oria, Shelly
Minor Characters: Stories
Vernon Downs: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Vernon Downs: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Boston Globe article entitled “These thoughtful, last-minute gifts arrive in an instant, no mailing required” re shopping at Bookshop.org
Newtonville Books
Hausler, Pete
Vernon Downs: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Roundabout Press galley letter for Minor Characters
Minor Characters: Stories
Ad campaign on Literary Hub for Minor Characters galley promotion
Hausler, Pete
Literary Hub
Minor Characters: Stories
Perrotta, Tom
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Brooklyn Book Festival
Minor Characters: Stories
Boston Globe article entitled “Umass grad’s site is helping independent bookstores hold their own against Amazon” re Bookshop.org, featuring quote from Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Minor Characters: Stories
Minor Characters: Stories
Boston Globe article entitled “How Mary Cotton found love and a career at Newtonville Books”
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Minor Characters: Stories
“The Chronicler of Obsession: Jaime Clarke’s Minor Characters“ by Laura van den Berg – The Brooklyn Rail
Brooklyn Rail
van den Berg, Laura
Minor Characters: Stories
Lethem, Jonathan
Literary Hub
Minor Characters: Stories
Boston Globe article re Newtonville Books hosting Boston Globe Book Club featuring Things That Grow by Meredith Goldstein
Cotton, Mary
Goldstein, Meredith
Newtonville Books
Cooper, Chris
Birch, Thora
Minor Characters: Stories
Gift agreement with John J. Burns library at Boston College for Post Road Archives
Post Road Magazine
Shelf Awareness newsletter featuring quote from Mary Cotton “The Indie Bookstore as a Very Optimistic Space.”
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Hausler, Pete
Scavengers: A Novel
Hausler, Pete
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Publishers Weekly
McDowell, Malcolm
We're So Famous: A Novel
Publishers Weekly
We're So Famous: A Novel
Literary Hub
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Roundabout Press galley letter for Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle by Jaime Clarke/What Was the Question Again? by Charlie Martens
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Boston Globe article entitled “We’re All in This Together: After weathering pandemic, Newtonville Books signs a new 10-year lease.”
Cotton Mary
Newtonville Books
Hall, Anthony Michael
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
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, (praise for), Vernon Downs, (book trailer narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper + praise for), World Gone Water, (book trailer narrated by Thora Birch + praise for), and Garden Lakes, (book trailer narrated by the author + praise for), and the memoir Poor Man’s Gatsby (praise for), published as Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in IG Publishing’s Bookmarked series; editor of the story collection Minor Characters, (sneak peek), and The Last Novel Ever Published, as well as the anthologies Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, 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), and Boston Noir 2: The Classics (with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton). 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. 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.
Awad, Mona
Boucher, Christopher
Calhoun, Kenneth
de Gramont, Nina
Greenman, Ben
Hartnett, Annie
King, Owen
LaBute, Neil
Lennon, J. Robert
Mechling, Lauren
Oria, Shelly
Richter, Stacey
Salvatore, Joseph
Seigel, Andrea
Torday, Daniel
Lethem, Jonathan
van den Berg, Laura
Minor Characters: Stories
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
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