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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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?”)
Bloomsbury – JDC correspondence with Publishers Weekly re review of We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Shout Magazine review of We’re So Famous in April 2001 issue
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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Email from Panagiotis Gianopoulos re Publishers Weekly
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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous by Lesley Allen
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Bloomsbury – Reviews of We’re So Famous from various college newspapers
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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous by Bernard Carpinter
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Bloomsbury – Inside.com article titled “Author Gives a Bad Review to PW Review,” re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous + Time Magazine.com article titled “Poor Sport” re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Book Review Digest summary of We’re So Famous. August 2001.
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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Arizona State University State Press Magazine profile of JDC. April 19, 2001.
Arizona State University
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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – West Valley View article re royalty donation to Literary Volunteers of Maricopa County. May 23, 2001.
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Bloomsbury – Sunday Herald (Glasgow) review of We’re So Famous, dated June 24, 2001
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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in Big Issue, June 25, 2001
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Bloomsbury – Authors on the Web article re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Library Journal articled titled “Don’t Kill the Reviewer” by Francine Fialkoff re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous
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Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to Bill Henderson at Pushcart re Post Road’s Pushcart Nominations
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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in Cleo, dated September 2001
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Larry Dark, series editor of O. Henry Prize Stories re Post Road
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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in NW, dated September 3, 2001
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Bloomsbury – Binder re We're So Famous college reading tour with Fuzzy. Includes Fuzzy CD.
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Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to IPD re distribution
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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in Attitude Magazine, dated July 2001
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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – audio of appearance on Ted Simons’s morning show on MIX 96.9 to promote royalty donation. Phoenix, AZ.
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Agented rejections for Scavengers from HarperCollins and Warner Books
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Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to Katrina Kenison at Best American Short Stories encl with Post Road 3
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence from A.E. Hotchner and Edward Hoagland re writing a recommendation for Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Subscription postcards and subscription envelope mailers
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Post Road Magazine – Oct 23 Lizard Watch, the newsletter for Newtonville Books, incl mention of NVB’s sponsoring a party at Audubon Circle in Boston on November 3 for the release of Post Road 3; incl Tim Huggins Post Road business card + Alden Jones Post Road business card
Jones, Alden
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19816 N. 49th Drive, Glendale, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
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Misc Adventures
Lethem, Jonathan
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Postcard from Harold Ober Associates acknowledging receipt of Standard Deviation story collection by JDC
Harold Ober Associates
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Standard Deviation
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Misc Adventures
Misc Adventures
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Post Road Magazine – Letter from Bill Henderson at Pushcart Press re the selection of “Cock Robin” by Miranda Field from PR for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize XXVII; incl contract signed by JDC on behalf of Post Road
Pushcart Prize
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Post Road Magazine – June 11 Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books incl mention of release of Post Road 4
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Newtonville Books
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchanges between JDC, David Ryan, Mike Rosovsky, Tim Huggins, Sven Birkerts and Eric Grunwald of AGNI, Christina Thompson and Erika Namaka from The Harvard Review re the Boston Publishers Consortium; incl BPC rate sheet.
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Draft and research material for Garden Lakes. Binder. incl hand-drawn map of Garden Lakes
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Bennington College
Manuscript – Garden Lakes – Novel. First draft. Typed, pgs 1-267. Annotated by JDC.
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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Response to Contemporary Authors questionnaire
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Larry Dark, series editor for O. Henry Prize Stories announcing his retirement from the series and the short-listing of “White Square” by Brian Evenson from Post Road 3 and “Homestay” by Rachel Sherman from Post Road 2 for the 2002 volume
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Victoria Clausi re Post Road panel at the Bennington summer residency; incl panel description.
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Post Road Magazine – October call for nominations for Pushcart Prize XXVII
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Tim Huggins re the idea of Post Road reprinting out-of-print books
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between Barry Gifford and JDC re the copyright in BG’s recommendation
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Jonathan Lethem re JDC interview of JL for Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Kevin Canty re writing a recommendation
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Laura Furman introducing her as the new series editor for O. Henry Prize Stories
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Post Road Magazine – Sept 17 Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books, announcing the release of Post Road 5 and a release party on Oct 26 at Audubon Circle Bar & Grill
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence between JDC and Cat Parnell re the operation of Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to Karen Braziller at Persea Books re distributing Post Road in the wake of DeBoer losing its chain affiliation
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Mike Rosovsky announcing Post Road’s selection as a “Hot Read” in Boston Phoenix‘s magazine Stuff at Night; incl printout of “Hot 100” list.
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Hignell Book Printers re printing Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road website with Ricco Siasoco
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Post Road Magazine – Letter from JDC to Fiona McCrae at Graywolf Books re a partnership to publish and distribute Post Road; incl response from FM.
Graywolf Press
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Catherine Parnell about becoming Post Road’s managing editor; incl CP’s Post Road business card.
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Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC re the idea of a multi-lit mag release party; incl response from M.T. Anderson from 3rd Bed
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Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence regarding Post Road’s inclusion in Booksense’s White Box Program
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Cat Parnell to Post Road editors re upcoming Associated Writing Program conference in Baltimore, including schedule for working the Post Road/Salamander table at AWP.
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Professor Zoran Kuzmanovich at Davidson College re the use of “Lolita A-Z” in Post Road 5
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Post Road Magazine – Postcard invites for Post Road 5 release party on Sat, Oct 26 at Audubon Circle Restaurant and Bar in Boston; incl flyer.
Post Road Magazine
“At the end of the semester, I often give away literary journals to my students–I want them to know about the range of choices and part of my job is to help show them this world. But I can’t give away Post Road! I have all the issues in my office and every semester I go over the stack to try to pick one to give up and I just can’t do it. Each issue is just packed with goodness and all I can do is show my copies to my students and then protectively snatch them back!” — Aimee Bender
Bender, Aimee
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Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence and contract relating to Post Road being distributed by Ingram Periodicals
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Elizabeth Giddens at Harper’s Magazine re reprinting “Behold the Couch, in Sorrow, Unemployed” by Will Eno from Post Road; incl photocopy of Table of Contents and reprinted piece from Feb 2003 issue of Harper’s.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Pushcart Prize nominations as voted by the editors: “Last Last Last” by Nicholas Montenarano, “A Huge, Old Radio” by Ander Monson, “Digression: Listerine: The Life and Opinions of Laurence Sterne” by John Wesley Harding, “Hip Hop High: Mainstream Black Culture in the White Suburbs” by Lauren Sandler, “How to Get the Love You Want” by Sarah Fox, and “What They Talked About and What They Said” by John Ruff
Pushcart Prize
Stace, Wesley (aka John Wesley Harding)
Monson, Ander
Montemarano, Nicholas
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Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to Mike Rosovsky re the history of Post Road for Grub Street panel
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“I trumpet Post Road not out of kindness but out of the purely selfish pleasure I take in a frisky, alert, independent magazine whose words and images spring off the page and sometimes turn a somersault or two before they stick their landings in my brain. I also admire the magazine’s artistic promiscuity in embracing whatever’s good wherever it comes from however it works and whomever it’s by.” — Walter Kirn
Kirn, Walter
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“The editors’ enthusiasm is palpable; they consistently provide a lively home for writing worth reading.” — Amy Hempel
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“Post Road is the little magazine so many writers dream of when they start out, but have trouble finding when they grow up. It’s like those Paris-based publications that discovered Ezra Eliot or TS Pound or someone. But it’s not; it’s based here, it publishes fresh exciting talent, and it’s helping keep the indie lit scene alive in America.” — Darin Strauss
Strauss, Darin
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“Post Road, from its inception, has been an exotic and intelligent literary treat. I always like to see what they come up with each issue, and they never fail to surprise, entertain, and enlighten.” — Jonathan Ames
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“I always read Post Road with great enthusiasm. In its stealthy, unassuming way, it has become one of the most reliable and ambitious literary magazines in America.”– Rick Moody
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“Post Road is one of the most interesting and exciting literary magazines out there. If you care about reading and writing, do yourself a favor and check it out.”–Tom Perrotta
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“Post Road has the goods. I not only fall on them and read them like hot news when they come in the door, I keep them lined up on my shelf like little books, because that’s what they are.”– Jonathan Lethem
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“Post Road maps the way to the freshest and funkiest literary territories. As the group The Postal Service does for music, Post Road fuses eclectic elements into something whole and wholly new.” – Elizabeth Searle
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“Magazines like Post Road are carrying more and more of the load when it comes to free thinking and dissent. And for that we all should be bottomlessly grateful. — Jim Shepard
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“Post Road is a jewel in a bucket of stones.” — Barry Gifford
Gifford, Barry
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O the Places I've Lived!
Various train schedules, airline tickets, Eurail passes, etc., for Clarke Brothers’ European vacation.
Misc Adventures
Correspondence – Alden Jones
Jones, Alden
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Robert Bookman at Creative Artists Agency re the film rights to We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – edited manuscript for We’re So Famous; incl May 1, 2000 letter from Panio Gianopolous.
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Bloomsbury – Hartford Courant piece entitled “What’s to Love: Writers Pick Their Favorites” featuring We’re So Famous recommendation by Frederick Barthelme
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Correspondence – Askold Melnyczuk
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Shout Magazine
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Correspondence – Maria Flook
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Correspondence – Bob Shacochis
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Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Joel Gotler at Artists Management Group re the film rights to We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Brian Lipson at Endeavor LA re the film rights to We’re So Famous
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Correspondence – Mary Robison
Robison, Mary
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Shout Magazine – November 2000 issue featuring Part Two of serialization of “Cheshires” by JDC. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Shout Magazine
Literary Journey
Shout Magazine – October 2000 issue featuring Part One of serialization of “Cheshires” by JDC. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Shout Magazine
Literary Journey
Bennington College
Bennington College
Shout Magazine
Literary Journey
Correspondence with Jordan Heller at Shout Magazine; includes contracts for articles and copies of receipts for payment.
Shout Magazine
Literary Journey
Correspondence – Karen Braziller at Persea Books
Braziller, Karen
Shout Magazine
Literary Journey
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis including cover for Glamorama + May 2000 issue of Shout Magazine featuring article titled “Star ‘80s: Bestseller Bad Boys: Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney.”
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Shout Magazine
Galleys from Xlibris for self-published novel A Complete Gentleman. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
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Unrealized Projects
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Unrealized Projects
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Standard Deviation
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Post Road Magazine – Email to editors re form wording for soliciting work and recommendations
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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Correspondence re college reading tour with Fuzzy
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Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence relating to the production of Post Road 1, including corr with editors about the collection of material
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Letter from Bettina Schrewe Literary Scouting agency about Bret Easton Ellis oral biography
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
Unrealized Projects
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re the release parties for Post Road 1: Fri, Step 15 at Dibrova Social Club in NYC and Sat, Sept 16 at The Joshua Tree in Boston; incl press release about the parties
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road website
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re instituting a slush pile
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re advertising in Post Road, incl corr with other literary magazines about swapping ads
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Harold Ober Associates
New York City
New York City
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re the Potpourri section, renamed the Etcetera Section with JDC as editor
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re not having book reviews in Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re how to collect material from editors
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Post Road Magazine – Email asking editors to come to the print shop to help assemble Post Road 1
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Chute, Hillary
Rosovsky, Michael
Ryan, David
Breen, Susan
Boyd, Rebecca
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Post Road Magazine contract template
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re a policy against publishing friends, Benningtonites, etc.
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O the Places I've Lived!
Correspondence – Jamie Clarke; incl CD for band Perfect
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Bauer, Douglas
Literary Journey
Literary Journey
Scavengers: A Novel
Drawing of JDC from Hollywood Wax Museum
New York City
Correspondence – Knox Burger
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Bennington College
We're So Famous: A Novel
Postcard from Harold Ober Associates acknowledging receipt of Scavengers
Harold Ober Associates
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Bret Easton Ellis blurb for We're So Famous: “Jaime Clarke pulls off a sympathetic act of sustained male imagination: entering the minds of innocent teenage girls dreaming of fame. A glibly surreal world where the only thing wanted is notoriety and all you really desire leads to celebrity and where stardom is the only point of reference. What’s new about this novel is how unconsciously casual the characters’ drives are. This lust is as natural to them as being American-it’s almost a birthright.”
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Jonathan Ames blurb for We're So Famous: “Darkly and pinkly comic, this is the story of a trio of teenage American girls and their pursuit of the three big Ms of American life: Music, Movies and Murder. An impressive debut by a talented young novelist.”
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Bob Shacochis blurb for We're So Famous: “Jaime Clarke is a masterful illusionist; in his deft hands, emptiness seems full, teenage pathos appears sassy and charming. We’re So Famous is a blithe, highly entertaining indictment of the permanent state of adolescence that trademarks our culture, a made-for-TV world where innocence is hardly a virtue, ambition barely a value system.”
Shacochis, Bob
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Bloomsbury – Village Voice listing for We’re So Famous reading at Astor Place Barnes & Noble, April 11, 2001.
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We're So Famous: A Novel
Newtonville Books
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University of Arizona
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Wallace, David Foster
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Bloomsbury – Nzoom.com review of We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Postcard from Mary Robison re We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Brophy College Preparatory alumni magazine, August 2001, includes announcement of We’re So Famous royalty donation to Literary Volunteers of Maricopa County.
Brophy College Preparatory – Phoenix, AZ
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Bloomsbury – Letter from Amy Hempel re We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Brophy College Preparatory alumni magazine, January 2001, includes announcement of publication of We’re So Famous.
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University of Arizona
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Bloomsbury – Kirkus review of We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Leslie Epstein re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – New York Times Book Review capsule review of We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Publishers Weekly review of We’re So Famous
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