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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

2003

Letter from Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County acknowledging receipt of donation

2003

Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Garden Lakes

2003
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Correspondence with Justin Manask at Gotler Associates re Garden Lakes

2003

Manuscript – Garden Lakes – Novel.  Typed, pgs 1-386.  Annotated by JDC.

2003

Correspondence with Webster Younce at Picador USA re Garden Lakes

2003

Correspondence with Coates Bateman at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday re Garden Lakes

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Correspondence with Brendan Cahill at Gotham Books/Penguin Putnam re Garden Lakes

2003

Correspondence with William S. Rose, Jr. re The Rose Literary Agency representing Garden Lakes

2003

Outline for Garden Lakes; incl two disks and various outlining materials.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from Grub Street to Michael Rosovsky re appearing on a panel at the Muse and the Marketplace representing Post Road; incl flyer poster.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Observer piece entitled “Eggers v the establishment” incl mention of Post Road by Rick Moody; incl email exchange with RM about the mention.

2003

Welcome packet from the University of Massachusetts at Boston

2003
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchanges with Mike Neff re Post Road and Web del Sol; incl Poets & Writers article on Web del Sol with mention of Post Road.

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Ricco Siasoco, David Ryan, and Cat Parnell re the Post Road website

2003
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Kristina Lucenko re Rick Barthelme assigning Post Road in his class at Univ of Mississippi

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between Cat Parnell and Randi Triant re Testa Horowitz and Thieboult taking on Post Road as a pro bono client re becoming a 501c(3)

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from Aaron Welborn, managing editor of Black Warrior Review praising Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Cat Parnell re Post Road’s FTP site

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from Ricco Siasoco re creation of email addresses for Post Road editors

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Cat Parnell and editors re Cat’s leaving the magazine

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email re Askold Melnyczuk’s invitation to Cat Parnell to attend panel at UMass Boston

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to Cat Parnell re change in copyediting procedure

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email to JDC from Askold Melnyczuk forwarded through Harold Ober re AM acknowledgement in Post Road 6

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email to Josephine Bergin re Post Road 7 production schedule

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email to Hillary Chute from Post Road contributor Eric Tyrone McLeod thanking her for editing his piece “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” for length for Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from Robert Lopez re being contacted by an agent via his story “Scar” in Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Victoria Clausi re a Post Road event at the 10th anniversary residency; incl July 31 email from Liam Rector, Priscilla Hodgkins, and Victoria about the 10th anniversary of the program.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from Pete Hausler re finding Post Road in the Union Square Barnes and Noble in NYC

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Robert Atwan, series editor for Best American Essays, re “The Shack of Art and Healing” by Oona Hyla Patrick being listed as a Notable Essay of 2003; incl Atwan’s invitation for Pete Hausler to represent Post Road at the Blue Hills Writing Institute.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Various email exchanges with fiction and poetry and nonfiction editors re instituting electronic submissions

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to editors announcing Josephine Bergin as Etcetera editor, replacing JDC

2003

Post Road Magazine – October 2003 invitation from Pushcart Press to nominate pieces from Post Road; incl Post Road’s nominations: “Animal Hater” by Samuel Ligon, “Since It’s You” by Peter Brown, “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” by Eric Tyrone McLeod, “The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea” by Larry O’Connor, “Self Portrait” by Tracy K. Smith, and “A Confederacy” by David Daniel.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email with updated editor contact info, incl Marcus McGraw as nonfiction editor.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Denis Woychuk, owner of KGB Bar in NYC, re a proposed merger between Post Road and KGB; incl corr re the Post Road party on Dec 11 to celebrate the release of Post Road 7.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Grub Street re Mike Rosovsky appearing in their master fiction class on Post Road’s behalf

2003

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Alden Jones re Post Road honors and contributors to date

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email to Joanna Yas, editor of Open City Magazine, re a joint Post Road/Open City event in Boston and New York

2003

Post Road Magazine – re Cheryl Reed as Post Road managing editor (Sept-Nov)

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Brian Kimberling re Post Road’s inclusion in The Writer’s Directory of Short Fiction and Poetry Publications

2003

Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books, mentioning the Oct 18 party at The Attic in Newton Centre to celebrate the release of Post Road 7.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Postcard for independent bookstores for inclusion in a complimentary copy of Post Road 7, distributed by Booksense.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Vincent Standley at 3rd Bed re a joint Post Road/3rd Bed event

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from Jennifer White at Bennington to JDC and Mike Rosovsky re an interview for a piece on the 10th anniversary of the MFA program for the alumni magazine; incl copy of finished article published Spring/Summer 2004.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from McSweeney’s re a request to Dave Eggers for a recommendation

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email to Josephine Bergin re production of Post Road 8 and Mary Cotton stepping in for Cheryl Reed as managing editor

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email to Jeff Marshall at The Paradise re a multi-lit mag party

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from Tom Perrotta re “Twenty Questions” for Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Victoria Clausi at Bennington re Post Road’s search for a new managing editor

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Brother Tom Murphy re using his index of The Great Gatsby in the Etcetera section of Post Road 6

2003

Post Road Magazine – Updated Editor Contact Info, including addition of Mary Cotton

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with B. Lee Hope re Post Road panel at Stonecoast MFA program, with Mike Rosovsky; incl panel outline.

2003
2003

Post Road Magazine – Email to David Ryan and Sue Breen and Hillary Chute re Post Road meeting at AWP Baltimore, including agenda.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Testa Horowitz and Thieboult re Post Road’s 501c(3) application

2003

Post Road Magazine – Feb 2003 copy of Harper’s Magazine featuring “Behold the Couch” by Will Eno, reprinted from Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence re Recommendations for Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email correspondence with Hignell re the printing of Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Letter to Tim Huggins from Barry Gifford re Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Copy of Post Road’s application to the IRS for 501c(3) status

2003

Post Road Magazine – Fax exchange with Ed Kane’s Water Taxi in Baltimore re JDC’s request to hire a ferry for the Post Road party at AWP

2003

Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books, re Associated Writing Program conference in Baltimore

2003

Post Road Magazine – Letter from Edward Hoagland re Post Road party

2003

Post Road Magazine – Various procedural emails for Mary Cotton re Post Road production

2003
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road’s Board of Directors

2003

Post Road Magazine – Ingram Periodicals order for Post Road; Bernhard DeBoer distribution list.

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Email from Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly soliciting comment re J.D. Salinger (+)

2004

Correspondence with Ryan Harbage at Simon & Schuster re proposal for oral history of the films of John Hughes

2004

Correspondence with Justin Manask re proposal for television series based on We’re So Famous

2004

Bennington – Correspondence with Victoria Clausi and Cat Parnell re 10th Anniversary and Post Road

2004

Correspondence with Tamar Brazis re Garden Lakes

2004

Correspondence with Jim Schiff at Time Warner Books re Scavengers

2004
2004

Bloomsbury – Manuscript – We’re So Famous – Screenplay.  Typed, pgs 1-86

2004

Correspondence with Tom Perrotta re We’re So Famous screenplay

2004

Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Garden Lakes

2004
2004

Correspondence with Tom Perrotta re “Twenty Questions” feature for Post Road

2004

Correspondence with Brooke Ehrlich at Rabineau Wachter re We’re So Famous screenplay

2004
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Emerson College – Contract to teach Advanced Creative Writing, Spring 2004

2004

Correspondence with Denise Flaim at New York Newsday re Dale Peck article

2004

Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Panagiotis Gianopoulos re Garden Lakes

2004

Correspondence with Ryan Harbage re oral history of the films of John Hughes

2004

Research material for short story “Big Noise” by JDC (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

2004

Correspondence re oral history of films of John Hughes

2004
1996

Manuscript – Bennington – Sections for novel version of A Complete Gentleman.  Annotated by Amy Hempel.

1996

Manuscript – Bennington – January 1996 residency workshop – “This Way Is Over.”  (Rewrite of “Monthly Payments.”) Short story.  Typed, pgs 1-17.  Annotated by Amy Hempel.

1996

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.)

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Manuscript – Bennington – “My Literary Apprenticeship.” Essay. Typed, pgs 1-20. Annotated by Amy Hempel.

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Typical by Padgett Powell.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Ice at the Bottom of the World by Mark Richard.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “An Amateur’s Guide to Night by Mary Robison.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – On Sharon Olds’s poetry.

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Orbit from The Spectacle of the Body by Noy Holland.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – On Steps by Jerzy Kosinski, Speedboat by Renata Adler, and Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick.

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ray by Barry Hannah.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “My Hard Bargain by Walter Kirn.”

1996

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.)

1996

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.)

1996
1996

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.)

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JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Stardust, 7-Eleven, Route 57, A&W, And So Forth by Patricia Lear.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons.”

1996
1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Into the Great Wide Open by Kevin Canty.”

1996

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.)

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Andrew Turnball.”

1996
1996

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.)

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Rock Springs by Richard Ford.”

1996
1996

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.)

1996

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.)

1996

October 24, 1996 contract with the Mississippi Review for the publication of “We’re So Famous”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Morvern Callar by Alan Warner.”

1996
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October 31, 1996 letter from the Mississippi Review with page proofs for “We’re So Famous”

1996

Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, edited by JDC.

1996

Manuscript – Bennington – JDC Graduate Lecture. w/letter from Bret Easton Ellis.

1996

Bennington – Final thesis (Standard Deviation) review by Betsy Cox

1996

Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, edited by BEE.

1996

Bennington – Final thesis (Standard Deviation) second review by Bob Shacochis

1996
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1996

Manuscript – Bennington – JDC Graduate Lecture. Annotated by Amy Hempel.

1996

Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, conducted in NYC in November 1996. Two microcassette tapes and transcript of interview.

1996
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Correspondence – Amy Hempel

1997
1997

Correspondence – Douglas Bauer

1997

Correspondence – Maria Flook

1997

Correspondence – Frederick Barthelme

1997
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Correspondence – Charles Bock

1997
1997

Manuscript – Bennington – Final version of JDC graduate lecture. Typed, pgs 1-16.

1997

Correspondence – Pete Hausler (+)

1997
1997

Proposed table of contents for A Complete Gentleman (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

1997

Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman. Novel.  First draft.  Typed, pgs 1-136.  Annotated by Bret Easton Ellis. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

1997

Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman.  Novel.  Second draft.  Typed, pgs 1-126.  Annotated by Bret Easton Ellis. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

1997
1997

Grave rubbings from road trip to Rockville, MD with Heather Fisher to visit graves of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (1) (2) (3)

1997

Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman.  Novel.  Final draft.  Typed, pgs 1-175.  Annotated by JDC. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

1997

Manuscript – undated draft of A Complete Gentleman.  Novel. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

1997
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Jan: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #7, Phoenix, AZ

1997
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Sept: Astoria, Queens

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Correspondence – Rick Moody

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Correspondence – Douglas Bauer

1998

Correspondence – Charles Bock

1998

Correspondence – Maria Flook

1998
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