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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

2001

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

2001

Bloomsbury – Reviews of We’re So Famous from various college newspapers

2001

Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous by Bernard Carpinter

2001

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

2001

Bloomsbury – Book Review Digest summary of We’re So Famous. August 2001.

2001
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Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Arizona State University State Press Magazine profile of JDC.  April 19, 2001.

2001

Bloomsbury – We’re So FamousWest 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

2001

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

2001

Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to Bill Henderson at Pushcart re Post Road’s Pushcart Nominations

2001
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Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in Cleo, dated September 2001

2001

Post Road Magazine – Email from Larry Dark, series editor of O. Henry Prize Stories re Post Road

2001

Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in NW, dated September 3, 2001

2001

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

2001

Bloomsbury – British review of We’re So Famous in Attitude Magazine, dated July 2001

2001

Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – audio of appearance on Ted Simons’s morning show on MIX 96.9 to promote royalty donation.  Phoenix, AZ.

2001

Agented rejections for Scavengers from HarperCollins and Warner Books

2001
2001

Post Road Magazine – JDC letter to Katrina Kenison at Best American Short Stories encl with Post Road 3

2001

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence from A.E. Hotchner and Edward Hoagland re writing a recommendation for Post Road

2001

Post Road Magazine – Subscription postcards and subscription envelope mailers

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2001

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

2001

19816 N. 49th Drive, Glendale, AZ

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Postcard from Harold Ober Associates acknowledging receipt of Standard Deviation story collection by JDC

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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

2002

Post Road Magazine – June 11 Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books incl mention of release of Post Road 4

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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.

2002

Draft and research material for Garden Lakes. Binder. incl hand-drawn map of Garden Lakes

2002
2002

Manuscript – Garden Lakes – Novel.  First draft.  Typed, pgs 1-267.  Annotated by JDC.

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2002

Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Response to Contemporary Authors questionnaire

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2002

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

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from Victoria Clausi re Post Road panel at the Bennington summer residency; incl panel description.

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2002

Post Road Magazine – October call for nominations for Pushcart Prize XXVII

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Tim Huggins re the idea of Post Road reprinting out-of-print books

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between Barry Gifford and JDC re the copyright in BG’s recommendation

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Jonathan Lethem re JDC interview of JL for Post Road

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Kevin Canty re writing a recommendation

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from Laura Furman introducing her as the new series editor for O. Henry Prize Stories

2002

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

2002

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence between JDC and Cat Parnell re the operation of Post Road

2002

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

2002

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.

2002

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Hignell Book Printers re printing Post Road

2002

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road website with Ricco Siasoco

2002

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.

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Catherine Parnell about becoming Post Road’s managing editor; incl CP’s Post Road business card.

2002

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

2002

Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence regarding Post Road’s inclusion in Booksense’s White Box Program

2002

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.

2002

“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

2002

Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence and contract relating to Post Road being distributed by Ingram Periodicals

2002

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.

2002

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

2002

Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to Mike Rosovsky re the history of Post Road for Grub Street panel

2002

“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

2002

“The editors’ enthusiasm is palpable; they consistently provide a lively home for writing worth reading.” — Amy Hempel

2002

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

2002

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

2002

“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

2002

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

2002

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

2002

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

2002

“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

2002

Post Road is a jewel in a bucket of stones.” — Barry Gifford

2002
2002

Various train schedules, airline tickets, Eurail passes, etc., for Clarke Brothers’ European vacation.

2003

Correspondence – Alden Jones

2003

Post Road Magazine – Oct 25 Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, re the release party for Post Road 11 on Sat, Nov 19 at Middlesex Lounge in Boston

2005
2005

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Felicia Sullivan re Post Road participating in the Legion of Lit Mags fair in Brooklyn

2005

Post Road Magazine – Dec 27 Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing Post Road’s raffle of ten signed first editions

2005

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Will Quackenbush at the Enormous Room re future Post Road events

2005

Post Road Magazine – Conference bulletin for Associated Writing Program conference in Vancouver, March 30-Apr 2; incl letter from Priscilla Hodgkins at Bennington College re their check for co-hosting the Post Road party; postcard invites for Post Road party at Steamworks Brewing Company on Fri, Apr 1; and paperwork re importing Post Road into Canada for sale at AWP conference.

2005

Post Road Magazine – Column by Alex Beam in The Boston Globe re mention of Jonathan Ames in Post Road

2005

Post Road Magazine – Schedule of subjects for “Twenty Questions” feature, including due dates to advertise for questions, collect questions, submit questions, publish questions

2005

Post Road Magazine – Submission Guidelines and instructions for poetry and fiction slushpile readers

2005

Post Road Magazine – Various Post Road forms, including cover letter to contributor re contract, cover letter to contributor re copyedited version of piece, letter to bookstore owners seeking readers for Post Road slushpile, letter to lit mags requesting swap subscription, letter soliciting a recommendation for Post Road rec section, letter to Newtonville Books First Editions Club members re subscribing to Post Road, invoice to those who subscribed at Post Road parties, and email sign up sheet.

2005

Post Road Magazine – Boston Phoenix article on Post Road titled “A Road More Traveled” by Tamara Wieder

2005
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2005

Correspondence – Various Benningtonites re Vernon Downs

2006

JDC Authors Guild Info Packet

2006

Correspondence – Post Road/Lesley/LVF merger

2006

Correspondence – Michael O’Keefe re We’re So Famous

2006
2006
2006

April 15, 2006 contract with Kelly Thomas and Nick Spicer at Mockingbird Pictures for one year film option on We’re So Famous

2006

Impetus Press page layout for Vernon Downs with JDC correx

2006
2006

Correspondence – Impetus Press re Garden Lakes

2006
2006

December 12, 2005 contract with Impetus Press for Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – drafts 1-6 of treatment for film version of We’re So Famous; incl notes from Nick Spicer for each draft.

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol II

2006

Manuscript – copyedited version of Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – formal Hughes proposal for Dystel Goderich Literary Management titled Some Kind of Wonderful: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes (retitled Don't You Forget About Me), edited by JDC with essays from Steve Almond, Julianna Baggott, Lisa Borders, Ryan Boudinot, T Cooper, Quinn Dalton, Nina de Gramont, Emily Franklin, Lisa Gabriele, Tod Goldberg, Tara Ison, Allison Lynn, John McNally, Dan Pope, Lewis Robinson, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Mary Sullivan, Rebecca Wolff, and Moon Unit Zappa

2006

Publishers Marketplace announcement of Some Kind of Wonderful (retitled Don't You Forget About Me) deal with Simon Spotlight Entertainment

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol I

2006

Manuscript – JDC handwritten introduction to Vernon Downs

2006
2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Gertrude version

2006

Contracts between JDC and contributors for John Hughes anthology

2006

Copyedited version of Vernon Downs, bound

2006

Photocopies of various Hughes anthology essays, edited by Terra Chalberg at Simon Spotlight Entertainment

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol III

2006
2006

Galley for Don’t You Forget About Me (formerly Some Kind of Wonderful), edited by JDC

2006

Photocopy of check for on-signing money for John Hughes anthology

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Claudine version, incl notes and outline

2006

Page proofs for Don’t You Forget About Me, edited by JDC

2006

Contract between JDC and Ally Sheedy re introduction to John Hughes anthology, incl correspondence.

2006
2006

Correspondence with Mike Jones at Bloomsbury UK re Vernon Downs

2006

Impetus cover for Vernon Downs

2006

Fall 2006/Winter 2007 Bennington alumni magazine featuring mention of Vernon Downs by JDC

2006
2006

Correspondence with Impetus Press re Vernon Downs

2006

Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Vernon Downs

2006

Impetus page proofs for Vernon Downs

2006

JDC generated key for Vernon Downs

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol IV

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol V

2006

Impetus catalogue copy for Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – O What Fun We’ll Have! O the Times! by JDC

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous screenplay, Gertrude Version 3, typed, 108pgs.

2006

JDC generated Q&A for Impetus re Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous screenplay, Gertrude Version 2, edited by JDC; incl outline and subsequent outline by JDC and Nick Spicer

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Gertrude version 2, incl notes and outline.

2006

Correspondence re potential purchase of Newtonville Books

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Board of Directors, incorporating Literary Ventures Fund

2006

Correspondence – What I Wanted to Be: A Memoir by JDC

2006

Corrrespondence – Mockingbird Pictures re We’re So Famous screenplay

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Lesley interns at Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re merger with Lesley University MFA program and Literary Ventures Fund

2006
2006

Manuscript – What I Wanted to Be: A Memoir by JDC

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Adam Braver contributing interviews to the Etcetera section

2006

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors announcing Post Road/Lesley/Literary Ventures Fund two-year partnership, including press release

2006

Post Road Magazine – Mary Cotton email to editors re Karen E. Bender nominating “Now It’s Clean” by Nina de Gramont for a Pushcart Prize

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Post Road Ambassadors re Post Road 12 release parties

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with summer youth camps re donating excess copies of Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Post Road Ambassador Blake Butler, Pablo at Mark Ultralounge, and Steven Cramer at Lesley re March 2 AWP Atlanta party in 2007

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re reprinting “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” by Eric Tyrone McLeod in an anthology published by the University of California San Diego

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Mary Cotton appearance on The Jordan Rich Show (radio) and WICN’s Inquiry (radio)

2006

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re using copyedited electronic galleys instead of paper galleys

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Lit Mag Holiday Parties at the Mercury Lounge in NYC on Dec 17 with One Story, Fence, Open City, Tin House, and A Public Space at The Paradise in Boston on Dec 4 with Redivider, Ploughshares, Agni, Quick Fiction, Salamander and Night Train; incl Village Voice listing for NYC party and Boston Globe “Shelf Life” piece.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Victoria Clausi at Bennington MFA program re a Post Road/Bennington merger; including Mar 17 newsletter recapping Austin Post Road/Bennington party.

2006

Post Road Magazine – re Post Road/Four Stories event on Sept 25 featuring Lise Haines, Richard Hoffman, Randi Triant, and Paul Yoon.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re “Twenty Questions” with David Mamet

2006

Post Road Magazine – Bennington College newsletter re Post Road attending the Legion of Lit Mag Party at Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; incl correspondence with Felicia Sullivan, organizer.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing May 15 release party for Post Road 12 at the Enormous Room in Cambridge; correspondence with NYC Post Road Ambassador Shomit Barua re May 18 release party at Lolita Bar on Lower East Side.

2006

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors announcing Samantha Pitchel as Assistant Managing Editor

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange re Oona Patrick joining Post Road as a nonfiction editor

2006

Post Road Magazine – Open City Books press release re the publication of The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman, including work published in Post Road; incl RS interview with Bookslut.com.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Noemi Press announcement re the publication of Disciplines by Diana George, incl work published in Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Boston Phoenix interview with Heidi Julavits including mention of Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham re idea of purchasing Newtonville Books and turning it into Post Road Books, a nonprofit bookstore

2006

Post Road Magazine – Post Road proposals to Literary Ventures Fund for Post Road anthology, Open Letters to Subscribers, Silent Auction, and hiring someone to maintain Post Road’s website.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Lit Mag Holiday parties, incl with performers Mike Albo, Sam Lipsyte, Molly Jong-Fast (NYC) and Elizabeth Searle, Daphne Kalotay, and Tom Perrotta (Boston); incl copy of invite

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Outline for Post Road presentation at Lesley University MFA program

2006

Post Road Magazine – 2006 Pushcart nominations: “On the History of the Backgammon Board” by Paul Yoon, “Alabama” by Murray Dunlap, “I Spy” by Elizabeth Powell, “July 19, 1962: Susanna Martin” by Jill McDonough, “Spotlighting” by Ira Sukrungruang, and “Blood and Luck” by Becky Bradway.

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